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1879-1899 



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Contents 



PAGE 

Committee on Publication 4 

In Memoriam 5 

The Class of 1879 7 

The Members IS 

The Faculty 99 

Vigintennial Dinner 103 

Class Statistics 105 

Addresses 107 



Committee on Publication 



John Marshall Gest^ Chairman, 

John Douglass Brown, Jr., 

Henry T. Dechert, 

George S. Fullerton, 

James B. Kinley, 

H. S. Prentiss Nichols, 

Thomas Reath, 

William M. Stewart, Jr. 



Ifn fiDemoriam 



Thomas Mitchell Chance, 
Born January 31, 1858. Died September 25, 1886 

Benjamin Bartis Comegys, 
Born June 11, 1858. Died November 20, 1884 

Thomas Aquinas Edwards, 
Born July 18, 1857. Died March 6, 1892 

George Trott Hazlehurst, 
Born October 18, 1858. Died December 11, 1881 

William Keating Hewson, 
Born October 16, 1859. Died March 4, 1898 

Charles Henry Kenney, 
Born June 27, 1857. Died May 28, 1882 

George Hail Lewis, 
Born May 22, 1859. Died March 2, 1880 

William Lorenz, 
Born August 8, 1858. Died August 10, 1881 

Charles Henry Luders, 
Born June 25, 1858. Died January 21, 1891 

Charles Henry Page. 
Born January 8, 1858. Died July 27, 1892 

Charles Santee Pauly, 
Born May 15, 1856. Died March 15, 1884 

William Meredith Ralston, 
Born October 26, 1859. Died June 4, 1889 

Percy Eugene Rihl, 
Born February 12, 1861. Died January 28, 1889 

Charles Carroll Smith, 
Born October 6, 1859. Died September 13, 1883 

Thomas Wharton, 
Born August i, 1859. Died April 3, 1896 



The Class of 1879 

IT is twenty years since Seventy-nine was graduated. 
Time enough for us to have done something in the 

world — at least sufficient to make it interesting to 
compare notes and see how we stand and what each 
man's prospects are in the struggle for existence. For 
some the struggle is over, and while we regret that the 
end came soon in cases where the promise of accom- 
plishment was excellent, let us reflect that our horizon 
is limited and our standard of comparison very imper- 
fect and that it has been said Melior est patiens viro forti, 
et qui dominatur animo suo expugnatore urbium. 

As we glance over the records the old life seems 
so fresh that it is hard to realize that the changed condi- 
tions at Pennsylvania have been brought about in so 
short a time. In fact, as well as in name, our Alma 
Mater is much the oldest of American universities. 
The wisest of Americans was our founder, and it makes 
little practical difference whether the author of the 
famous ''Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth 
in Pennsylvania" could have fully developed the plan 
which he outlined, for he picked out one who was cap- 
able of doing it, and gave us the man to whom the life 
of the University is due. Franklin's own position later 
was positively hostile, though a Pennsylvania profes- 
sor has seen fit in an official publication to speak as 
though he had been our constant champion and sup- 
porter. 

He may have objected, as he said he did, to the 

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importance given to the study of the classics. But 
there was a stronger reason for his antagonism to Pro- 
vost Smith, who was the ablest champion of the propri- 
etary interest in the province after James Logan's death. 
The College was the stronghold of the aristocratic 
party, and Franklin was the leader of the popular party. 
The College was disliked, and when the Revolutionary 
struggle began, although the College was on the popu- 
lar side several of the trustees were Tories and many 
more were suspected of Toryism, and her enemies saw 
and used their opportunity. She was despoiled of her 
property and robbed of her influence in 1779, and the 
first of many abortive attempts was made in America to 
legislate a University into existence, by creating a rival 
institution — the University of the State of Pennsylvania 
— and endowing it with the property of the College. 
It was the first time an institution in English-speaking 
America was called a University, and the attempt to 
found it by confiscation made further attempts along 
the same lines impossible if a late writer on the Federal 
Constitution is correct in assigning the origin of the 
clause prohibiting the passage by the States of laws 
impairing the obligation of contracts to the experience 
of the College of Philadelphia. 

Restitution came in 1789, and reconciliation and 
affiliation with the legislative creation in 1791, under the 
present charter of the University of Pennsylvania. But 
the great Provost who had created the University was 
set aside, and never ruled over it under the new name. 
For nearly a century the College suffered, though the 
University flourished, and it was more than a century 
before the number of students in the College caught up 
with and passed the number in the Medical School. 



The College became little more than a local institution 
of excellent but limited reputation and influence. The 
reaction began under Provost Stille and the third period 
in our history dates from the removal to West Philadel- 
phia, and the new spirit infused into the institution. 

Seventy-three was the first class to be graduated 
after the removal. Seventy-five projected (in Philo), 
and Seventy-six established, the University Magazine, 
Seventy-seven founded the Athletic Association in our 
freshman year. When Seventy-nine was matriculated 
the new life was fairly begun, and Seventy-nine entered 
into it heartily and helped it mightily, as a brief outline 
of our college history will show. 

The first sensation of freshman year was in relation 
to the Bowl-fight — Pennsylvania's "peculiar institu- 
tion." Jefiferys, then in Seventy-eight, had been bowl- 
man the year before, and had nearly had his brains 
knocked out on the steps (he will surely pardon this 
account in our private memoirs, though one of the 
arguments he urged against the custom was that the 
publicity occasioned by the position would be fatal to 
the victim's prospects in after life). At the opening of 
the term he printed and circulated a pamphlet attacking 
the custom, which led to acrimonious discussion in the 
Magazine, for his supporters, though not numerous, 
were enthusiastic. But the fight took place as usual and 
the next year Seventy-nine produced a bowl which, for 
the first time, was preserved unbroken, and the custom 
continued with more or less opposition on the part of the 
Faculty until fifteen years later when Horace Jayne, as 
Dean, by artfully recognizing and regulating it took 
most of the old snap and vigor out of it, and thus ac- 
complished what his predecessors had failed to do. 

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During this year an effort was made to establish 
college prayer-meetings. It is interesting to read the 
controversy in the columns of the Magazine and the 
arguments in opposition, not to taking part in them, but 
to allowing them to be held, on the ground that they were 
in bad taste, that the chapel services furnished all the 
religious stimulus the students required, that they were 
a travesty on religion, and their promoters actuated by 
the unworthy motive of securing professorial approval. 
The champion of the reformers was a freshman, and 
certainly held his own in argument, and manifested a 
cheerful readiness to test the matter by force of arms if 
need were, and his terse and pointed epigram that if 
they chose to try it his opponents would find that "Mus- 
cle is not incompatible with Christianity" was quoted in 
college for many a day after Pike left us. 

In sophomore year Edwards and Dechert were the 
movers in the introduction of Cremation, borrowed 
from other colleges, and, in spite of the disapproval of 
the older classes, immensely successful and at once es- 
tablished as a ''fixture" at Pennsylvania. In this year 
Britton organized the University Orchestra, which he 
conducted successfully until his graduation. 

In the spring of sophomore year took place the first 
boat race ever rowed by University of Pennsylvania 
crews, made more interesting, says the Magazine, by the 
fact that the contest was really between the senior and 
sophomore classes, all but one of the crew of the Uni- 
versity Club being seniors, while the crew of the College 
Club consisted of Hunt, Stewart, Kennedy and Hart. 
The sophomores were victorious and when Hunt was 
unable to stand training and Bond of Seventy-seven had 
taken his place this became the University Crew and 

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two years later defeated Columbia and Princeton in the 
first race for the Childs Cup. 

This year Lee's athletic triumphs began — modestly, 
with two seconds in the fall sports, followed by four 
firsts in the spring sports and three firsts at the Inter- 
Collegiate meeting at Mott Haven, a record never ex- 
celled. In the next year he took seven out of twelve 
firsts in the fall, and the Magazine having sarcastically 
suggested that the name of the association be changed 
to the Lee Athletic Society he did not compete in the 
spring games, but took two firsts and a second at Mott 
Haven. There has been a great change in athletics. 
In the present day the most promising of three thousand 
students are selected by experts and trained with no 
saving of expense to excel in various lines. Twenty 
years ago those who were enthusiastic enough of the 
three hundred college students did their own training 
under very adverse conditions, and at their own ex- 
pense. As to popular encouragement, the Magazine 
recorded it as a remarkable sien of interest that ''full 
three hundred people" attended the fall games in 1877. 

Jefiferys, after a year's absence from college, joined 
Seventy-nine in junior year. The year had been spent 
in meditation, and he was prepared to revolutionize col- 
lege teaching. Didactic instruction was a mistake. 
The faculty had knowledge which the students lacked, 
and the reasonable way to proceed was for the student 
to question the professor — ask for what he wanted. 
Let us adopt the Socratic method, wrote Jefferys in the 
Magazine. The conservatives were alarmed and re- 
plied at length. They argued that the class-rooms 
would be disorderly; the quicker or more alert students 
would monopolize the attention of the professor; it was 

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undignified, and would break up the orderly sequence 
of imparting knowledge. Jefferys replied, vigorously 
of course, and had a large following which grew steadily 
until Jefferys ran up against Jackson and asked him, in 
class, what he thought of the Socratic method. Jack- 
son said when rightly understood it had its advantages, 
but that Jefferys had gotten things a trifle twisted. As 
applied by its inventor it consisted in the teacher ques- 
tioning his students to find out how much they knew, 
and he offered to illustrate. The Socratics diappeared 
from that day. This year the Chess Club was founded 
by members of Seventy-nine and Eighty and this year, 
too, was established, mainly through the efforts of Jef- 
ferys, a branch of the Intercollegiate Literary Associa- 
tion, which aimed to accomplish what has recently been 
brought about in the shape of intercollegiate literary 
contests, but failed. 

In senior year Seventy-nine governed the college 
wisely. In the societies and in the Class politics were 
active and the Fraternities opposed each other and 
made ''deals" and "combinations" and so afforded a use- 
ful part of the training gained in college, as they always 
do. Colket published the first Pennsylvania college 
song book. Three of the Class, as already noted, rowed 
in the first Childs Cup Race, which did more than any 
other single event to establish Pennsylvania as an ath- 
letic college. Lee kicked a goal against Princeton 
which was a wonderful achievement in itself and a ver- 
itable prodigy for Pennsylvania in those days. We 
graduated forty-one, then the largest class on record, 
and separated after four very pleasant, profitable years. 

Let this brief outline serve to introduce the records 
of what has happened since. The intimate daily asso- 

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ciation ended twenty years ago, but many friendships 
were formed then which have grown stronger from year 
to year. Loyalty to Pennsylvania, and pride in the 
Class are universal among us, and the feeling that the 
foundations of whatever success we have attained were 
laid in those four years. 

The success has been gratifying. No class has 
given as many men to the service of the University as 
Seventy-nine. Six of the Class have belonged to the 
teaching bodies, and of these two have held the Dean- 
ships of the College and of the Department of Phil- 
osophy and one of these has been Vice-Provost. One 
of the Class has been Treasurer of the University. Four 
have been members of the Central Committee of the 
Alumni. Many have been officers or directors of the 
various organizations associated with her interests. 
Many have given liberally to her needs in proportion to 
their ability, and some have been able to give largely. 

In their various pursuits the members of Seventy- 
nine have achieved at least a fair measure of success, 
and on the whole the brief sketches which follow will 
furnish pleasant reading to those for whom they are in- 
tended. Some are unfortunately incomplete because 
every effort has failed to reach the men ; a very few are 
imperfect because the efforts of the committee met with 
no response; a few could be enlarged by the statement 
of facts which it is better to leave in friendly oblivion, 
but these are very few indeed, and altogether we may 
turn over these pages with a sense of satisfaction that 
our names are entered on the roll of the Class of Sev- 
enty-nine. 



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The Members 



Allison, Edward Wood, physician, son of William 
and Margaret (Wood) Allison, was born in Philadel- 
phia, December 17, 1857. He entered the Department 
of Arts in 1875, at the close of freshman year became a 
member for a time of the class of 1880, then entered the 
Medical Department from which he was graduated 
M. D. in 1880. He was resident physician at the Phila- 
delphia Hospital 1880-81, and after practicing for some 
time in Philadelphia removed to New York City. 

Address : 202 West 79th Street, New York, N. Y. 

AsHTON, William Easterly, physician, son of Sam- 
uel Keen (Class of 1841), and Caroline Melinda (Smiley) 
Ashton, was born in Philadelphia, June 5, 1859. He 
entered the Department of Arts in 1875 and left in 1877, 
during sophomore year. He entered the Medical De- 
partment and was graduated M. D. in 1881, and after- 
wards received the same degree from Jefferson Medical 
College in 1884 and from the Medico-Chirurgical Col- 
lege in 1896. He has served as Demonstrator of Clini- 
cal Obstetrics and Chief of Clinic of Diseases of Women 
in Jefferson Medical College and is now Professor of 
Gynaecology in the Medico-Chirurgical College of 
Philadelphia and is Surgeon to the Medico-Chirurgical 
Hospital. He is a member of the Philadelphia County 
Medical Society, the Obstetrical Society and the Medi- 
cal Jurisprudence Society of Philadelphia, and has pub- 
lished a compend on Essentials of Obstetrics; The 

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Failure of Legislation in Limiting the Spread of Syph- 
ilis; and papers in medical journals on gynaecology frofn 
time to time. 

He married in Philadelphia, October 5, 1891, Alice 
E., daughter of Mitchell G. Rosengarten. Their child 
Dorothy, b. July 2J, 1892, d. in infancy. 

Address: 201 1 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Philomathean Society; Athletic Association. 
Freshman : Class Cricket Eleven. x, 

Sophomore : Class Cricket Eleven. 

Benton, Zebulon, son of Zebulon H. Benton, was 
born in Burlington, N. J., August 8, 1859. He entered 
the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and left during 
freshman year. 

Borden, Edward Parker, son of Edward Parker 
and Cecelia (Erwin) Borden, was born in Philadelphia, 
January 9, 1857. He entered the Towne Scientific 
School in 1875, and left at the close of freshman year. 
He was a real estate broker in Philadelphia, but at pres- 
ent is residing in Washington, and not engaged in busi- 
ness. 

He is unmarried. 

Address: 1644 21st Street, N. W., Washington, 
D. C. 

Boulton, William Bowen, merchant, son of Wil- 
liam George and Mary Elizabeth (Bowen) Boulton, was 
born in Philadelphia July 20, 1859. He entered the 
Department of Arts in 1875, ^^<^ ^^^^ in October, 1878, 
at the beginning of senior year. He is a member of the 
Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. Since leaving college, 

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WILLIAM EASTERLY ASHTON. 




EDWARD P. BORDEN. 




WILLIAM B. BOULTON. 



after spending some time in study and travel in Europe, 
he has been engaged in business and is now a partner 
in the firm of Boulton, Bliss & Dallett, builders, owners 
and managers of the "Red D Line" of steamers between 
New York, Venezuela and Curasao, exporters of Amer- 
ican produce and manufactures and importers of coffee, 
etc. He is a director of the Norfolk and Western Rail- 
way Company, the Mechanics' National Bank of New 
York and the Jenkintown Light Company, and a trus- 
tee of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company. He 
has travelled extensively in Europe, the United States 
and Venezuela. He is a member of the General Alumni 
Society, and President of the New York Society of 
Alumni, of the University of Pennsylvania; and a mem- 
ber of the Down Town Association, Union and Church 
Clubs, of New York, Rockaway Hunting and Flanders 
Clubs, of Long Island, and University Club of Phila- 
delphia. 

He married in Philadelphia, October 13, 1881, 
Louisa Kuhl, daughter of Henry Kuhl Kelly. Their 
children are: 

William Bowen, b. August 16, 1882. 

Anita Teresa, b. September 12, 1883. 

Dora, b. February 17, 1885. ' 

Howard, b. June 6, 1886. 

Pauline Esther, b. September 19, 1888. 

Anson Hard, b. November 9, 1891. 
Address: 13 East 34th Street, New York. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: $K 2; Philomathean Society; Athletic Associa- 
tion; College Boat Club. 

Freshman : Class Glee Club. 

Junior : Class Crew, Cricket Eleven and Glee Club ; Secre- 
tary College Boat Club. 

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Britton, William Wainwright, son of Andrew L. 
Britton, was born January 31, 1859. He entered the 
Department of Arts in 1875 ^^^ was graduated A. B. 
in 1879. He studied law and was for a time in business. 

He married, November 2, 1881, Sallie M., daughter 
of Charles E. Byers. 

Undergraduate Record. 

_ Member : Philomathean Society ; Athletic Association ; 
University Orchestra and Glee Club. 

Freshman : Pianist of University Glee Club; Leader Class 
Glee Club. 

Sophomore : Organized University Orchestra ; University 
Base Ball Team; Class Base Ball Team. 

Junior: Class Executive Committee, Glee Club and Base 
Ball Team; University Base Ball Team. 

Senior: Leader University Orchestra; Manager Univer- 
sity Base Ball Team ; Captain Class Base Ball Team. 

Brown, Edward Hurst, architect, writer and illus- 
trator, son of Philip Sidney and Natalie Josepha (Wes- 
cott) Brown, was born in Philadelphia, January 4, 1859. 
He entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875, and 
was graduated B. S. in 1879. After graduation he was 
draughtsman with Wilson Brothers & Co., 1879-81, and 
the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad 
Company, 1881-83 ; assistant engineer maintenance of 
way of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at Altoona, 
1883; and subsequently architect in Philadelphia, 
1883-91, being associated from 1886-91 with Samuel 
Hall Day ('79) under the firm name of Brown & Day. 
Subsequently he was advertising manager for Harrison 
Brothers & Co., 1891-93. From 1893 to 1898 he was 
editor of Painting and Decorating , a trade magazine, the 
office of the paper having been removed from Philadel- 
phia to New York in 1894. Since 1898 he has been in 
the general advertising business in New York. He has 

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EDWARD HURST BROWN. 




JOHN DOUGLASS BROWN, JR. 



written extensively for the Ladies' Home Journal and 
various trade and other pubhcations, and is a special 
department editor of the Painters' Magazine. 

He married in Philadelphia, October 15, 1890, 
Sarah Barker, daughter of William Runk, of Brooklyn, 
N. Y. Their children are 

Isabel Halsey, b. October 27, 1892. 
Philip Sidney, b. December 15, 1896. 
Address: 523 Monroe Avenue, Elizabeth, N. J. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Franklin Scientific Society; Athletic Associa- 
tion; Cricket Club. 

Freshman: Honors of first grade (Rank No. i) ; Cor^ 
responding Secretary Franklin Scientific Society. 

Sophomore: Honors of first grade (Rank No. 2). 

Junior: Recording Secretary Franklin Scientific Society. 

Senior: Honors of second grade (Rank No. 3). 

Brown, John Douglass, lawyer, son of John Doug- 
lass and Anna Sophia (West) Brown, was born in Phila- 
delphia, September 28, i860. He entered the Depart- 
ment of Arts in 1875 and was graduated A. B. in 1879 
and A. M. in 1882. He is a member of the Phi Kappa 
Psi fraternity and was Class Prophet. After graduation 
he entered the Law School, was graduated LL.B. in 
1881, and 1881-83, took the post-graduate law course in 
the Department of Philosophy. He was admitted to 
the Philadelphia Bar in 1881 and has since been in prac- 
tice in Philadelphia, and has done some legal writing 
and law reporting. He was Prothonotary of the Law 
Academy of Philadelphia 1884-85. In 1891 he was 
admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States. 
He is a member of the Archaeological Association, 
Athletic Association, Alumni Association, Law Alumni 
Association and Sharswood Law Club of the Univer- 

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sity, and has been a member of the Central Committee of 
the Alumni, 1887 to date ; he is a member of the His- 
torical Society of Pennsylvania, Athenaeum of Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, Law 
Association of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bar Associa- 
tion and American Bar Association, and of the Univer- 
sity, Philobiblon, Down Town and Third Legal Clubs of 
Philadelphia and the Reform Club of New York. 

He is unmarried. 

Address: 519 Drexel Building, Philadelphia. 
Undergraduate Record. 

Member: ^K'^; Philomathean Society; Athletic Associa- 
tion; Cricket Club; Chess Club; University Literary Associa- 
tion. 

Sophomore : Second Censor Philo. ; Class Cricket Eleven. 

Junior: President Chess Club. 

Senior: Class Corresponding Secretary; Class Executive 
Committee; Class Prophet; Editor University Magazine; Presi- 
dent Literary Association; Commencement Orator; Honors of 
third grade (Rank No. 7). 

Brown, Thomas Joshua, manufacturer, son of 
George and Esther (Beardsell) Brown, was born in 
Yorkshire, England, September 23, 1855. He entered 
the Department of Arts in 1875 and left in 1877, during 
sophomore year. He is a member of the firm of George 
Brown's Sons, manufacturers of cotton and woolen 
goods, at Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, and since 1897 
has been a member of the New England Cotton Manu- 
facturers Association. 

. . He married in Philadelphia, April 12, 1879, Mary 
A. Horrocks. Their children are: 

Esther Matilda, b. February 11, 1880. 

Mabel, b. April 19, 1883; d. February 15, 1899. 

Thomas Joshua Beardsell, b. March 8, 1895. 
Address: Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Penna. 

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THOMAS J. BROWN. 




JAMES S. CARPENTER. 



Bruner, Abraham, mechanical engineer, entered 

the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and left during 

sophomore year. He was graduated E. M. at Lehigh 

University in 1880. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Member : Franklin Scientific Society. 

Carpenter, James Stratton, physician, son of John 
Thomas (Class of 1852 and Medical Class of 1855) and 
Eliza A. (Hill) Carpenter, was born in Pottsville, Penn- 
sylvania, April 21, 1859. He entered the Department 
of Arts and left at the close of sophomore year to enter 
junior year with the Class of 1879 at Trinity College, 
Hartford. By Trinity, he was graduated A. B. in 1879 
(cum hoywre in Ethics, Metaphysics, Chemistry and 
Natural Science) and A. M. in 1882 and there he joined 
the I. K. A. fraternity and was Ivy Orator, Washing- 
ton's Birthday orator and Latin Salutatorian of his 
Class. In 1879 he entered the Medical Department of 
the University and was graduated M. D. in 1882, being 
in 1881-82 a member of the Stille Medical Society. 
He was a resident physician at the Episcopal Hospital, 
Philadelphia, in 1882-83 ^^^ since 1884 has been a 
practitioner of general medicine at Pottsville, Pennsyl- 
vania. He is Pennsylvania Railroad Surgeon and in 
1889-90 was President of the Schuylkill County Medical 
Society. He has published: Tartar Emetic Poisoning; 
Septicaemia from Human Bite; Reproduction of Bone 
after Trephining; A New Treatment for Cancer; Guaia- 
col as an Antipyretic in Typhoid Fever; and various 
papers on medical and surgical subjects in medical jour- 
nals. He was Assistant-Surgeon 1885-88, and Surgeon 
1888-95, o^ t^^ Eighth Regiment, National Guard of 
Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Pottsville Club. 

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He married in Brooklyn, New York, April 28, 
1886, Lilian Louise, daughter of Asahel Chapin. Their 
children are 

James Stratton, b. February 14, 1887. 

Chapin, b. December 2, 1890. 

Gertrude Gouverneur, b. March 21, 1893; d. 

May 9, 1894. 
Lilian Horton, b. October 19, 1897. 
Address: Pottsville, Penna. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Athletic Association. 

Freshman: Honors of first grade; Class and University 
Base Ball Teams. 

Sophomore: Vice-President of Class; Class Bowl Com- 
mittee, Cricket Eleven and Foot-Ball Team. 



Carter, Oscar Charles Sumner, chemist and geol- 
ogist, son of Oscar Charles Butterfield and Mary Louisa 
(Brower) Carter, was born in Philadelphia, March i, 
1857. He entered the Towne Scientific School as a 
special student in junior year, and received a certificate 
of proficiency in 1879. He is a member of the Phi 
Kappa Psi fraternity. He has been chemist of the Mid- 
vale Steel Works; Lecturer on Chemistry at the Spring 
Garden Institute; Quiz Master in Analytical Chemistry 
of the Medical Institute of Philadelphia; Lecturer in 
Chemistry of- the Chautauqua Society of Philadelphia; 
and in 1880 was elected Associate Professor of Chem- 
istry and in 1887 Professor of Geology and Mineralogy 
and Associate Professor of Chemistry in the Boys' Cen- 
tral High School of Philadelphia, which appointment he 
now holds. He has published: Ores, Minerals and 
Geology of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (in the 

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OSCAR C. S. CARTER. 




ISAAC S. CASSIN, JR. 



County History); Best Means of Freeing Water from 
Soluble Mineral Impurities (for which he received a 
medal from the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society 
in 1883); Study of Tornados in South Eastern Pennsyl- 
vania, illustrated; The Great Trap Dike, Montgomery 
County, Pennsylvania; Localities and Analyses of Coal 
found in Mesozoic Strata in Pennsylvania; A Delicate 
Test for Antimony; Study of the Schuylkill River; four 
papers on Artesian Wells; and numerous other articles 
and communications in scientific journals both Ameri- 
can and foreign. He has studied the Cliff Dwellings in 
Arizona and the Grand Cafion of the Colorado River in 
Arizona and made some geological observations in the 
Yellowstone Park. He is a member of the Priestley 
Chemical Club of the University, Geological Section 
Academy of Natural Sciences and of the Verein der 
Bohrtechniker of Vienna. 

He married in Norristown, Pennsylvania, October 
23, 1882, Ellenora, daughter of John L. Martin. They 
have one son 

Oscar Sedgwicke, b. November 14, 1884. 

Address: 1930 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member:^ K -i; Athletic Association. 

Junior: Class Cricket Eleven; Captain Class Base Ball 
Team; Captain University Base Ball Team. 

Senior : Class and University Base Ball Teams ; Won Two 
Mile Walk. 

Cassin, Isaac Sharpless, engineer, son of Isaac 
Sharpless and Emily (Hunter) Cassin, was born in 
Philadelphia, February 10, 1859. He entered the 
Towne Scientific School in 1875 and left at the close of 

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freshman year. He is connected with the firm of Isaac 
S. Cassin & Son, civil and hydraulic engineers, and his 
hydraulic engineering practice has extended to various 
cities and towns throughout the United States. He 
studied at Swarthmore College. He is a member of 
the Franklin Institute. 

He married in Philadelphia, October 14, 1885, 
Emma, daughter of Frederick Sauter. Their children 
are 

Isaac Sharpless, b. October 31, 1886; d. Jan- 
uary 18, 1897. 
Emma, b. May 18, 1888. 
Louise, b. December 2y, 1890. 
Frederick S., b. June 6, 1895; d. December 7, 

1896. 
Florence, b. October 13, 1897. 
Address: 2906 Girard Avenue, Philadelphia. 

*Chance^ Thomas Mitchell, physician, son of Jere- 
miah C. and Augusta (Mitchell) Chance, was born in 
Philadelphia, January 31, 1858, and died in Ness City, 
Kansas, September 25, 1886. He entered the Towne 
Scientific School in 1875, and left at the close of sopho- 
more year. He entered the Medical School and was 
graduated M. D. in 1880. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Member: Franklin Scientific Society. 

Chatham^ Benjamin Franklin, teller, son of Benja- 
min Franklin (M. D.) and Mary Elizabeth (Comegys) 
Chatham, was born in Odessa, Delaware, December 24, 
1857. He entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 
and left during sophomore year. Since then he has 

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BENJAMIN F. CHATHAM. 




CHARLES CLAXTON. 



been engaged in mercantile and general banking busi- 
ness, and is now paying-teller of the Penn National 
Bank of Philadelphia. 

He married in Philadelphia, in January, 1879, 
Caroline J., daughter of Charles William Babbitt. 
Their children are 

Mary Elizabeth, b. September 10, 1879. 

Helen Babbitt, b. November i, 1881. 

Benjamin Franklin, b. June 4, 1888. 
Address: 4816 Beaumont Avenue, Philadelphia. 

Claxton, Charles, physician, son of Edmund and 
Elizabeth Lex (Rehn) Claxton, was born in Philadel- 
phia, September 12, 1858. He entered the Department 
of Arts in 1876, in sophomore year, and was graduated 
A. B. 1879, and A. M. 1882. He is a member of the 
Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity and was the Ivy Orator of 
the Class. After graduation he entered the Medical 
Department, and was graduated M. D. in 1882. He 
was awarded distinguished merit for his medical thesis 
on graduation, and was one of the first honor men, and 
is Historian of the Medical Class of 1882. He was a 
member of the Central Committee of the Alumni, 
1888-93. He has served as resident and visiting physi- 
cian of the Episcopal Hospital and St. Christopher's 
Hospital, and resident physician at the Orthopaedic 
Hospital, Philadelphia, and resident physician at the 
Mercer Hospital for Women and the Children's Seaside 
Home, Atlantic City, and visiting physician at the Chil- 
dren's Dispensary of the University, and is a member of 
the Philadelphia County Medical Society and German- 
town Medical Society and a fellow of the College of 
Physicians. He has travelled in Canada, Alaska, 

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Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Java, 
Annam, Ceylon, China, Japan, India, Egypt, Greece, 
Turkey, Europe generally, and Cuba. He is a member 
of the University, Country, Germantown Cricket and 
Philadelphia Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia and Royal 
Portrush Golf Club of Portrush, Ireland. 

He married in Germantown, May i8, 1886, Belinda 
Emott, daughter of James Emott Caldwell of Philadel- 
phia. Their children are 

Edmund, b. February 11, 1887; d. March 21, 

1887. 
Sarah Caroline Caldwell, b. March 14, 1891. 
Charles, b. March 3, 1895. 
Address: 5130 Wayne Avenue, Germantown. 

Undergraduate Record, 

Member : $ K 2 ; Athletic Association. 

Junior: Class Glee Club and Base Ball Team; University 
Glee Club. 

Senior: Ivy Orator; Chairman Class Record Committee; 
Secretary University Glee Club; Corresponding Secretary Ath- 
letic Association. 

CoLKET, Charles Howard, son of Coffin and Mary 
Pennypacker (Walker) Colket, was born in Philadel- 
phia, July 2, 1859. -^6 entered the Department of Arts 
in 1875, and was graduated A. B., 1879, and A. M. 1882. 
He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He 
published in senior year the first University of Pennsyl- 
vania Song Book. He became Secretary, 1882, and 
Treasurer, 1883, of the Thomson-Houston Electric 
Light Company, but resigned in 1883 on account of ill- 
health and has not since engaged in business. He is a 
director of the Chestnut Hill Railroad Company. Since 
graduation he has travelled more than 241,000 miles, 

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C. HOWARD COLKET. 




BENJAMIN BARTIS COMEGYS, JR. 



having been twice around the world, besides visiting 
South America, South Africa and Australasia, and mak- 
ing a journey on horseback of thirteen hundred miles 
through Asiatic Turkey from the Persian Gulf to the 
Mediterranean Sea. He is a life member of the fol- 
lowing organizations and societies: Alumni Society, 
Athletic Association and Archaeological Association of 
the University; Spring Garden Institute, Horticultural 
Society, Fairmount Park Art Association, Mercantile 
Library, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl- 
vania Museum and School of Industrial Art, West Phil- 
adelphia Institute, Genealogical Society, Pennsylvania 
Society Sons of the Revolution, Academy of Natural 
Sciences, Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, Geo- 
graphical Club and Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, 
and is a life member of the Union League and the Uni- 
versity Clubs and a member of the Country Club of 
Philadelphia. 

He married in Philadelphia, April 12, 1887, Almira 
Little, daughter of Richard Peterson. They have one 
son 

Tristram Coffin, b. May 31, 1896. 

Address: 519 Drexel Building, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : 4> K ^ ; Athletic Association ; Cricket Club ; Glee 
Club ; Dramatic Club ; Chess Club, 

Junior : Treasurer Chess Club. 

Senior: Member Class Record Committee; Treasurer 
Dramatic Club. 

*CoMEGYS, Benjamin Bartis, banker, son of Benja- 
min Bartis and Sarah Porter (Boyd) Comegys, was born 
in Germantown, Philadelphia, June 11, 1858, and died in 
Philadelphia, November 20, 1884. He entered the De- 

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partment of Arts in 1875 and was graduated A. B., 

1879, and A. M., 1882. After graduation he entered 

the Philadelphia National Bank, became assistant 

cashier in 1883, and continued in that office until his 

death. 

He married in Philadelphia, May 15, 1884, Louise 

Wakeman, daughter of George Junkin. They had no 

children. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Philomathean Society; Cricket Club; Chess 
Club ; Glee Club ; Dramatic Association. 

Sophomore: Class Foot Ball Team. 

Senior: Secretary Dramatic Association; Honors of third 
grade (Rank No. 10). 

Dale, James Wilkinson, civil engineer, son of Rev. 
James Wilkinson (Class of 183 1) and Mary Goldsbor- 
ough (Gray) Dale, was born in Lower Providence, Del- 
aware County, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1856. He 
entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875, and was 
graduated B. S. in 1879. He was Cremation Orator 
(Science) of the Class. After graduation he practiced 
as a civil engineer and engaged in the business of gen- 
eral land and mineral development. 

Address: Media, Delaware County, Penna. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Franklin Scientific Society. 
Freshman : Class Vice President. 

Sophomore: Class Executive Committee; Cremation Ora- 
tor (Science). 

Junior: Class Executive Committee; Junior Day Orator. 
Senior: Class Record Committee. 

Day, Samuel Hall, architect and engineer, son of 
Conrad Baker and Sarah Day (Hall) Day, was born in 
Kensington, Philadelphia, November 6, 1858. He 
entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875, being then 

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SAMUEL H. DAY, 




HENRY T. DECHERT. 



a graduate (A. B.) of the Philadelphia High School, and 
was graduated B. S. in 1879. After graduation he was, 
1879-80, marine draughtsman with Columbian Iron 
Works, Baltimore, Md.; 1880-86, constructing engineer 
and architect Eddystone Print Works, Eddystone, Pa.; 
1886, constructing engineer Manly & Cooper Iron 
Company, Philadelphia; 1886-95, architect in Philadel- 
phia, from 1886-91, being in partnership with Edward 
Hurst Brown ('79), under the firm name of Brown & 
Day; 1895 to date, assistant to R. W. Grand Secretary 
F. & A. Masons of Pennsylvania and Secretary Com- 
mittee on Finance of the Grand Lodge. He is a mem- 
ber of Harmony Lodge No. 52 F. & A. Masons, Penn- 
sylvania. 

He married in Philadelphia, December 11, 1889, 
Isabel Thompson Haller. They have one daughter 
Margery Isabel, b. October 11, 1890. 

Address: Saint David's, Delaware County, Pa. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : Franklin Scientific Society ; Athletic Association. 
Senior: Corresponding Secretary Franklin Scientific So- 
ciety. 

Dechert, Henry Taylor, lawyer, son of Henry 
Martyn and Esther Servoss (Taylor) Dechert, was born 
in Philadelphia, February 2, 1859. He entered the De- 
partment of Arts in 1875, and was graduated A. B., 
1879, and A. M., 1882. He is a member of the frater- 
nity of Delta Psi, was Cremation Orator (Arts), 
Junior Day Orator and Class Day Orator of the Class, 
and has been the Secretary, Treasurer and Historian of 
the Class continuously since graduation. After grad- 
uation he entered the Law School and was graduated 
LL. B. in 1881, taking the Meredith Prize for his essay 

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on The Appointment of Guardians. He was admit- 
ted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1881, and was President 
of the Law Academy of Philadelphia, 1885-86. He 
has been in active practice since his admission, and has 
made considerable contributions to legal literature. He 
was admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States 
in 1889. He enlisted in the First Troop Philadelphia 
City Cavalry in 1884, and was corporal and sergeant, 
becoming an honorary member in 1890 ; in the latter year 
he became First Lieutenant and Inspector of Rifle Prac- 
tice, Second Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania 
and in 1891 was elected and commissioned Major and in 
1893 Lieutenant Colonel of the same. On May 13, 1898, 
he was commissioned, under the first call for volunteers 
in the Spanish War, Lieutenant Colonel of the Second 
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the ser- 
vice of the United States, and from May 18 to Septem- 
ber 6 was in command of five companies of the regi- 
ment on duty guarding smokeless powder works first at 
Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, afterwards at Penn's 
Grove, New Jersey. Having been mustered out No- 
vember 15, 1898, he re-entered the State service, hav- 
ing been elected Colonel of the Second Regiment, 
National Guard of Pennsylvania, April 21, 1899. He 
has been since graduation a member of the Alumni 
Societies of the College and the Law School, and since 
its organization a member of the General Alumni So- 
ciety. He is a member of the Law Association of 
Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association; 
also of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, 
and of the University, St. Anthony, Third Legal and 
Wheel Clubs of Philadelphia, and St. Anthony Club of 
New York. 

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EV^\NS R. DICK. 



He married in Holmesburg, Philadelphia, January 
30, 1895, Virginia Louise, daughter of Edward W. 
Howard. They have one son 

Robert, b. November 29, 1895. 
Address: 605 Real Estate Trust Building, Phila- 
delphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : A ■*■ ; Philomathean Society ; Athletic Associa- 
tion ; University Literary Association. 

Freshman : Matriculate Latin Prize. 

Sophomore: Declamation Prize; Cremation Orator 
(Arts) ; Class Executive Committee and Foot Ball Team; Sec- 
retary and First Censor, Philo. ; Editor University Magazine. 

Junior : Junior Day Orator ; Class Executive Committee. 

Senior: Class Day Orator; Class Record Committee; 
Senior Regent Literary Association; Honors of second grade 
(Rank No 4). 

Deza, Jose Eloy, was born January 28, 1854. He 
entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and left at 
the close of freshman year. He was born in Peru, and 
after spending some years in Philadelphia returned to 
that country. His last ascertained address was Pacas- 
mayo, Peru, but the efforts of the committee to reach 
him have been unsuccessful. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Member: Franklin Scientific Society. 

Dick, Evans Rogers, banker, son of Franklin 
Archibald (Class of 1842) and Mira Madison (Alexan- 
der) Dick, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, August 13, 
1858. He entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875, 
transferred to the Department of Arts at the close of 
sophomore year and left at the close of first term senior 
year. He is a member of the fraternity of Delta Psi. 
Since leaving college he has been engaged in business 
as a banker and broker, and is a member of the firm of 

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Dick Brothers & Company of Philadelphia and New 
York. He is President of the Investment Company of 
Philadelphia and the Investment Trust Company of 
Philadelphia, and Vice-President of the Cincinnati, 
Portsmouth & Virginia Railroad Company and the 
Ohio River & Charleston Railroad Company. He has 
travelled in Africa and Central America. In 1899 he 
endowed in the University a scholarship in memory of 
Vice Provost Ezra Otis Kendall in the nam.e of the 
Class of 1879. From 1880 to 1889 he was a member of 
the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry; and he is a 
member of the Rittenhouse, University, Union League, 
Country and Corinthian Yacht Clubs of Philadelphia 
and Calumet Club of New York. 

He m.arried in Philadelphia, November 7, 1882, 
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry B. Tatham. Their chil- 
dren are 

Mildred, b. February 17, 1884. 

Fairman Rogers, b. August 7, 1885. 

Evans Rogers, b. December 17, 1888. 
Address: 435 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : A ■t ; Philomathean Society ; Athletic Associa- 
tion ; College Boat Club ; Dramatic Club. 

Sophomore : Class Executive and Bowl Committees ; Cap- 
tain Class Foot Ball Team; University Foot Ball Team, 

Junior: Class Crew and Foot Ball Team; University Foot 
Ball Team. 

Senior: University Orchestra. 

DoRRANCE, John, son of Charles and Susan (Ford) 
Dorrance, was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 
in 1858. He entered the Towne Scientific School in 
1875 and left at the close of freshman year. He is a 
'member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. After leaving 
college he spent one year in Western Texas and one 

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THOMAS A. EDWARDS. 



year on Yellowstone River, Montana, and since that 
time has been engaged in the cattle business in Chari- 
ton County, Missouri. 

He married in Windsor, Ontario, February 9, 1888, 
Emily, daughter of Francis J. Simmons. They have 
one son 

Charles, b. February 28, 1891. 

Address : Keytesville P. O., Chariton County, Mo. 

*Edwards^ Thomas Aquinas, lawyer, son of George 
Washington and Elizabeth Rosalie (Whelan) Edwards, 
was born in Philadelphia, July 18, 1857, and died in 
Philadelphia March 6, 1892. He entered the Depart- 
ment of Arts in 1875 and left during sophomore year. 
He was a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. 
He suggested the idea of "Cremation" which was 
adopted by the Class and established at Pennsylvania 
as the characteristic event of sophomore year. He was 
Cremation Poet. After leaving college he studied law, 
was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1880 and prac- 
ticed until 1884, when he took up the insurance busi- 
ness. He was personal estate deputy to the sherifr of 
Philadelphia County, 1887-90. He was one of the 
founders, and the Colonel, of the Young Democratic 
Battalion of Philadelphia. He was Second Lieutenant, 
First Regiment, and Captain, Third Regiment, National 
Guard of Pennsylvania, and subsequently a member of 
the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry; and was a 
member of the Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia. 

He married in Philadelphia, March 30, 1880, Dora, 
daughter of Edmund Claxton. They had no children. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: $K2j Athletic Association; College Boat Club. 
Sophomore : Second Lieutenant Boat Club ; Cremation Poet. 

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Elliott, John Stuart, engineer, son of Stuart and 
Lucy Irland (Sorrel) Elliott, was born in Savannah, 
Georgia, March 20, 1859. ^e entered the Towne 
Scientific School in 1876 (second term freshman year) 
and was graduated B. S. in 1879, and C. E. in 1886. 
He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. 
Since graduation he has been engaged in the practice 
of his profession as a civil and mining engineer, and in 
contracting, in various parts of the United States and 
in Mexico, Jamaica, and Ecuador. He was Instructor 
in Civil Engineering in the University, 1884-85. He 
has published: Recent Specifications as Affecting Rail- 
way Bridge Dimensions; Discussion of Pegram on 
Bridge Weights; and translations from the German 
concerning the Planimeter and its Uses. He is a 
member of the American Society of Civil Engineers 
and the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York. 

He married in New York City, September 4, 1890, 
Helena Forsyth, daughter of Matthias Ellis. Mrs. 
Elliott died June 30, 1895. Their children are 
Stuart Ellis, b. August 18, 1892. 
Helena Katherine, b. January 4, 1895. 

Address: Care of Douglas Robinson & Co., 55 
Liberty Street, New York. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : * K "i ; Athletic Association. 

Sophomore : Class Foot Ball Team. 

Junior : Class Foot Ball and Base Ball Teams ; University 
Foot Ball Team. 

Senior: Captain University Foot Ball Team; Prize for 
highest general average Engineering Department; Honors of 
third grade (Rank No. 4). 

Franciscus, Albert Henry, son of Albert Henry 
and Susan (Swift) Franciscus, was born in Philadelphia, 

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JOHN S. ELLIOTT. 




FRANCIS T. FREELAND. 



April 24, 1859. He entered the Towne Scientific 
School in 1875 and left during freshman year. Since 
1883 he has been engaged in newspaper work having 
been advertising manager of the Chicago Herald and 
Chicago Times; eastern manager, in New York of the 
Chicago Tribune; and being now connected with the 
Chicago Chronicle. 

Address : Care of Chicago Chronicle, Chicago, 111. 



Freeland, Francis Theodore, engineer, son of 
Thomas Miller and Mary Elizabeth (Mapes) Freeland, 
was born in Philadelphia, August 7, 1859. He entered 
the Towne Scientific School in 1875, and was graduated 
B. S. in 1879. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi 
fraternity and was the Valedictorian of the Class. 
After graduation he was connected with the University, 
1879-81, as Instructor in Mechanics, Librarian of the 
Rogers Engineering Library, Assistant in Engineering 
and Lecturer in Higher Mathematics, at the same time 
pursuing post-graduate studies. During the same 
period he was draughtsman with William Sellers & Co., 
Philadelphia, calculator United States Coast Survey 
and first assistant to Professor William D. Marks in the 
survey of the Amagansett Indian Reservation of 40,000 
acres at Montauk Point, Long Island. In 1881 he re- 
moved to Colorado, where he has since resided. He 
was, in 1881, draughtsman in the office of S. W. Kimble, 
mill engineer, Denver; 1881-82, engineer to American 
Mining and Smelting Co., Leadville; 1882-85, mining 
engineer to Iron Silver Mining Co., Leadville; 1885, 
engineer to Hendey & Meyer Engineering Co., Denver; 
1885-87, superintendent Iron Silver Mining Co., and 
Nisi Prius Consolidated Mining Co., Leadville; 1887-93, 

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consulting mining and mechanical engineer, Leadville; 
1893 to date, manager Aspen Contact Mining Co., and 
Bi-Metallic' Mining and Milling Co., Lenado; 1894-97, 
manager Isabella Gold Mining Co. and Zenobia Gold 
Mining Co. and consulting engineer Ingham Consoli- 
dated Gold Mining Co., Limited, and Work Mining and 
Milling Co., Cripple Creek; 1894, and 1896 to date, 
manager Mineral Farm Consolidated Mining Co., 
Aspen; and 1894 to date, manager Durant Mining Co., 
Compromise Mining Co. and Late Acquisition Consoli- 
dated Mining Co., Aspen. He has travelled in the 
mining regions of Mexico and British Columbia and 
visited nearly all the camps in the United States. He 
has published: The Refaurm of Inglish speling; An 
Automatic Tit-Tat-To Machine ; The Day of the Week 
for a Given Date ; Linkages for X"^ ; A Machine for the 
Solution of the Equation of the Nth. Degree ; The Sul- 
phide Deposit of South Iron Hill, Leadville; Fault 
Rules ; The Solution of the Equations X^ + Y = 7 and 
X + Y^ = 11; How to Build a Coasting Sled; Mining 
Leases; Mine Timbering; and other professional papers 
in scientific periodicals. He is a member of the Ameri- 
can Institute of Mining Engineers, American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers and the Colorado Scientific 
Society, and of the Athletic and University Clubs of 
Denver and the Elk Club of Leadville. He is unmarried. 
Address: P. O. Box 1016, Aspen, Colorado. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : 4> K ^ ; Chess Club. 

Freshman: Honors of First Grade; Prize for Improve- 
ment in Drawing; Second Prize for Solution of Geometrical 
Problems. 

Sophomore : Honors of First Grade. 

Junior : Honors of First Grade. 

Senior: Valedictorian; Honors of second grade (Rank No. i). 

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GEORGE S. FULLERTON. 



FuLLERTON, Gcorgc Stuart. clergyman and profes- 
sor, son of the Reverend Robert Stuart and Martha 
(White) Fullerton, was born in Futtehgurh, India, 
August i8, 1859. He entered the Department of Arts 
in 1875 and was graduated A. B., 1879, ^^'^^ A. M., 1882; 
B. D., Yale, 1883, and Ph. D. (honorary), Muhlenberg, 
1892. He was Class Poet. After graduation he pur- 
sued post-graduate studies in theology and philosophy 
at Princeton, 1879, ^^^ ^^ Yale, 1880-83. He is a mem- 
ber of Phi Beta Kappa. He was licensed in the Presby- 
terian Church, afterwards ordained into the ministry of 
the Episcopal Church. In 1883 he returned to the 
University as Instructor in Philosophy and was subse- 
quently, 1885-87, Adjunct Professor, and 1887, to date, 
Professor of Philosophy; 1889-90, Dean of the Depart- 
ment of Philosophy; 1894-96, Dean of the College and 
Vice-Provost of the University; 1896-98, Vice-Provost 
of the University. 

In his Annual Report, 1898, the Provost says "On 
assuming the office of Provost, and for the four years of 
my administration, I was greatly helped by the wise 
counsel and loyal assistance of the Vice-Provost of my 
own nomination, the Rev. George S. Fullerton. I have 
all along been aware that in rendering this assistance in 
administration work Professor Fullerton was making 
large sacrifices of the thought and strength which 
rightly belonged to his Chair, and to the well-chosen 
life work to which he is so adapted. I was therefore 
not surprised although I deeply regretted it, when he 
tendered his resignation last March, and at the same 
time applied for a long leave of absence for recupera- 
tion and refreshing study. His services as Vice-Pro- 
vost have been of great and enduring value to the Uni- 

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versity, and will be long remembered. We hope to 
welcome him back to the duties of his Chair at the be- 
ginning of the next Academic year, invigorated and 
ripened by his sojourn abroad, and that for many years 
to come he may adorn the position which he seems to 
have logically inherited from his own great teacher, 
some time also Vice-Provost, the Rev. Dr. Krauth." 

He was, in 1896, president of the American Psycho- 
logical Association. He is a member of the American 
Philosophical Society. He has published : Preliminary 
Report of the Seybert Commission on Spiritualism; The 
Conception of the Infinite; A Plain Argument for God; 
On Sameness and Identity; The Philosophy of Spinoza; 
On the Perception of Small Differences (with James 
McKeen Cattell); besides numerous articles and ad- 
dresses mostly on philosophical and educational topics 
or in relation to the University of Pennsylvania. He is 
a member of the University Club of Philadelphia. 

He married (i) in Alexandria, Va., January 26, 
1884, Rebekah Daingerfield Smith, who died May 5, 
1892; and (2) in Philadelphia, March 8, 1897, Julia 
Winslow Dickerson. He has no children. 

Address: University of Pennsylvania. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : Philomathean Society. 

Sophomore: Prize Oration in Phllo. 

Junior : Prize Oration and Prize Debate in Philo. ; De- 
partment of Philosophy Prize for Essay on Descartes. 

Senior: Class Poet; Commencement Orator; Philo. Com- 
mencement Orator; Philo. Prize Essay and Second Prize De- 
bate ; Member Class Record Committee ; Honors of third grade 
(Rank No. 5). 

Garber, Humboldt, lawyer, son of S. Jones and S. 
Emma (Wright) Garber, was born in Philadelphia, Sep- 

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JOHN MARSHALL GEST. 



tember 21, 1858. He entered the Towne Scientific 
School in 1875 and left at the close of freshman year. 
Subsequently he entered the Law School and was grad- 
uated LL. B. in 1880. He was admitted to the Phila- 
delphia Bar in 1880, practiced law 1880-84, engaged in 
the coal business 1885-87 and the insurance business 
1887-95, and from 1896 to date has been connected with 
the title department of the Commonwealth Title Insur- 
ance and Trust Company of Philadelphia. 

He married in Philadelphia, October 28, 1886, 
Angle C, daughter of Edwin H. Cornell. Their chil- 
dren are 

Ida A., b. November 9, 1887. 
Edwin Cornell, b. March 27, 1889. 

Address: P. O. Box 28, Lansdowne, Delaware 
Co., Pa. 

Gest, John Marshall, lawyer, son of John Barnard 
(Class of 1844) and Elizabeth Ann (Purves) Gest, was 
born in Philadelphia, March 17, 1859. He entered the 
Department of Arts in 1875, and was graduated A. B., 
1879, and A. M., 1882. He is a member of the Phi 
Kappa Sigma fraternity, was Latin Salutatorian and 
Spoon Man, and in 1882 delivered the Master's Ora- 
tion. After graduation he studied law, entered the Law 
School in 1880 and was graduated LL. B. in 1882, tak- 
ing the Sharswood (first) Prize for his essay on The 
Rule of Ex parte Waring. He was admitted to the 
Philadelphia Bar in 1882. 1883-84 he was Prothono- 
tary of the Law Academy of Philadelphia. He has 
been in active practice since 1882 and has published 
various papers on legal subjects including: The Rule 
of Ex parte Waring ; Marshalling Assets with Reference 

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to the Rights of Successive Part Purchasers and In- 
cumbrancers; Public Charities and the Rule of Re- 
spondeat Superior; The Natural Use of Land, a Re- 
view of Sanderson vs. Pennsylvania Coal Co. ; A Review 
of Waters vs. Wolf, 162 Pa. 153. He has been a mem- 
ber of the Society of the Alumni since 1879, o^ the 
Society of the Alumni of the Law Department since 
1882 and of the Central Committee of the Alumni since 
1888 (and President of the Central Committee from 
1897 to date) and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the 
Athletic Association and Houston Club and Shars- 
wood Law Club of the University of Pennsylvania. He 
is a trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia 
and a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 
Selden Society (England), Law Association of Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Athenseum of 
Philadelphia, University, Third Legal, Down Town and 
Lawyers' Clubs of Philadelphia, Merion Cricket Club, 
and University Club of New York. 

He married in Philadelphia, April 17, 1888, Emily 
Judson, daughter of Edwin P. Baugh. Their children 
are 

John Marshall, b. February 2J, 1889, d- No- 
vember 9, 1890. 

Arthur Ralston, b. June 10, 1892. 

Sydney Grier, b. September 30, 1896. 
Address: 400 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : 4> K 2 ; Philomathean Society ; Athletic Associa- 
tion; Chess Club; University Literary Association. 

Freshman : Matriculate Greek Prize ; First Prize for So- 
lution of Geometrical Problems ; Freshman Greek Prize ; Second 
Censor Philo. ; Chairman Class Executive Committee ; Honors 
of first grade. 

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JOHN A. GILTINAN. 




JOHN GRAHAM. 



Sophomore : First Censor Philo. ; Editor University 
Magazine ; Vice President of Class ; Honors of first grade. 

Junior : Junior Greek Prize ; Moderator of Philo. ; Honors 
of first grade. 

Senior: Senior Greek Prize; Senior Latin Prize; Latin 
Essay Prize; Latin Salutatorian at Commencement; Latin Salu- 
tatorian at Philo. Commencement; Class President and Spoon 
Man ; Recorder of Philo. ; Editor University Magazine ; Vice 
President University Literary Association; Honors of first 
grade (Rank No. i). 

GiLTiNAN, John Aloysius, lawyer, son of David and 
Ellen (Kavanagh) Giltinan, was born in Philadelphia, 
January 14, 1857. He entered the Department of Arts 
in 1875 and left in 1877 at the close of the first term 
junior year. He studied law, attending the Law 
School during the winter of 1881-82. 1883-87 he was 
Judge of Probate, Stevens County, and Recorder, Mor- 
ris, Stevens County, Minnesota; 1888-95, Assistant City 
Clerk, St. Paul, Minnesota; 1896-98, Secretary Demo- 
cratic City Committee of St. Paul; and is now connected 
with the Central Minnesota Land Company. He has 
published: Compilation of the Ordinances of the City 
of St. Paul; Compilation of the Laws of Ramsey 
County, Minnesota. He joined the Minnesota Branch 
of the Alumni Association of the University in 1896. 

Pie is unmarried. 

Address: Care Central Minnesota Land Co., 

Morris, Minnesota. 

Graham, John, clergyman, son of Hugh and 
Maria (Williams) Graham, was born in New York City, 
May 14, 1857. He entered the Class of 1878 in 1874, 
but spent only a few weeks in college, owing to an 
attack of typhoid fever, re-entered the Department of 
Arts in the Class of 1879 i^ 1875, but continued ill- 

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health compelled him to leave during the first term of 
sophomore year. He then undertook a course of pri- 
vate study and in September, 1877, entered the Theo- 
logical Seminary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, 
Allegheny, Pa., from which he was graduated in March, 
1881, also being graduated that year from the National 
School of Elocution and Oratory, Philadelphia. His 
health having been entirely restored he has since been 
actively engaged in ministerial work. He was ordained 
at Rochester, N. Y., June 22, 1881, and remained there 
as pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Church until 
1889; 1889-92, he was pastor First Reformed Presby- 
terian Church, Philadelphia; 1893-96, pastor Westmin- 
ster Presbyterian Church, Allegheny, Pa.; 1896 to date, 
pastor East Park Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. 

He married in Allegheny, Pa., September 9, 1880, 
Elizabelfh Emma, daughter of James Mahafifey. Their 
children are 

Jane Mahafifey, b. August 14, 1881. 
Maria Williams, b. May 26, 1883. 
Ashley Chalfant, b. November 8, 1890. 
Address: 3227 Montgomery Avenue, Phila. 

Haines, George Austin, entered the Towne Scien- 
tific School as a special student in 1877 and left in 1878. 
He was born in Mt. Holly, New Jersey. 

Hance, Anthony Miskey, manufacturing chemist, 
son of Edward Hance and Charlotte (Miskey) Hance, 
was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, July 20, 1859. 
He entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875, and 
was graduated B. S. in 1879. He is a member of the 
fraternity of Delta Psi. Since graduation he has been 

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ANTHONY M. HANCE. 




REGINALD L. HART. 



engaged in business and is a member of the firm of 
Hance Brothers & White. He was an active member 
of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, 1880-90, 
and was second sergeant when he resigned; and has 
since been on the non-active roll. He has travelled ex- 
tensively in the United States, Canada, Europe and 
Japan. He is a member of the Alumni Society, Ath- 
letic Association and Houston Club of the University; 
life member of the Naval Institute; member of the 
Franklin Institute and also of the Rittenhouse, Uni- 
versity, Philadelphia Barge and Country Clubs of Phila- 
delphia and St. Anthony Club of New York. 

He married in Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, June 22, 
1892, Sara Mitchell, daughter of Hon. John M. Robin- 
son, Chief Justice of Maryland. 

Address: 2024 De Lancey Place, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : A -*• ; Franklin Scientific Society ; Athletic As- 
sociation; College Boat Club; Cricket Club; University Glee 
Club ; Dramatic Club. 

Freshman : Recording Secretary of Class ; Class Glee 
Club and Cricket Eleven, 

Sophomore: Class President; Class and University Foot 
Ball Teams. 

Junior: Class Glee Club; Cricket Eleven and Foot Ball 
Team ; Treasurer College Boat Club. 

Senior : Class Executive Committee ; University Foot Ball 
Team; Treasurer College Boat Club. 

Hart, Reginald Lawrence, insurance, son of 
Thomas and Rebecca A. (Reeves) Hart, was born in 
Philadelphia, November 24, 1858. He entered the 
Towne Scientific School in 1875, ^^ "^^ beginning of 
junior year transferred to the Department of Arts and 
left college during senior year. He is a member of the 
fraternity of Delta Psi. In 1880 he matriculated in the 

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Law School but was not graduated in law. He was 
stroke of the University Crew in 1879-80-81. After 
leaving the University he engaged in the life insurance 
business and is now manager in Philadelphia of the 
Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York. He is 
a member of the Athletic Association of the University 
and of the Merion Cricket and Radnor Cricket Clubs. 
He married in Bridgeton, N. J., May 24, 1883, 
Elizabeth Whitely, daughter of Benjamin Franklin 
Elmer. Their children are 

Reginald Lawrence, b. July 21, 1884. 

Thomas, b. January 29, 1887; d. July 2"], 1888. 

Clara Reeves, b. December 7, 1888. 

Elmer Reeves, b. January 26, 1892. 
Address: Wayne, Delaware County, Pa. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : A ■t ; Athletic Association ; College Boat Club. 

Sophomore : Class Corresponding Secretary ; Class Crew 
and Foot Ball Team ; University Foot Ball Team. 

Junior : Class Cricket Eleven ; First Lieutenant College 
Boat Club; Captain University Foot Ball Team. 

Senior: Class Foot Ball Team; University Foot Ball 
Team; Stroke University Crew. 

*Hazlehurst_, George Trott, son of James Wright 
(Class of 1852) and Sally (Trott) Hazlehurst, was born 
in Philadelphia, October 18, 1858, and died in Nice, 
France, December 11, 1881. He entered the Depart- 
ment of Arts as a special student in 1875 and received a 
certificate of proficiency in 1879. After graduation he 
went into business for a short time, but had been travel- 
ling abroad for some time when he was taken ill and 
died suddenly at Nice. 

His father, after replying to the Committee's request 
for information, adds, 'T desire to add my loving and 

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GEORGE T. HAZLEHURST. 




AUSTIN S. HECKSCHER. 




WILLIAM K. HEWSO^^. 



affectionate tribute to his memory. He was of a most 
lovely disposition ; more than amiable in character ; and 
attracted to himself all with whom he came in contact." 
He was unmarried. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : Athletic Association ; Cricket Club. 

Freshman : Class Glee Club and Cricket Eleven. 

Sophomore : Class Bowl Committee, Cricket Eleven and 
Foot Ball Team ; University Cricket Eleven and Foot Ball 
Team ; Secretary and Treasurer Cricket Club. 

Senior: Class Foot Ball Team; University Cricket Eleven 
and Foot Ball Team. 

Heckscher, Austin Stevens, iron manufacturer, 
son of Richard and Lucretia Ledyard (Stevens) Heck- 
scher, was born in New York City, September 20, 1858. 
He entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and left 
at the close of sophomore year. He has since been en- 
gaged in anthracite coal mining and the manufacture 
of iron by blast furnaces and is a member of the firm of 
Richard Heckscher & Sons. He is a member of the 
Philadelphia Country Club. 

He married in Philadelphia, January 23, 1883, 
Celeste Dulongpre, daughter of Robert Valantine Mas- 
sey. Their children are 

Robert Valantine, b. November 19, 1883. 

Richard Maurice, b. June i, 1885. 

Celeste, b. July i, 1887. 

Anna Massey, b. December 19, 1895. 
Address: Manhattan Building, Philadelphia. 

*Hewson, William Keating, engineer, son of Addi- 
nell (Class of 1847) ^^^ Rachel Macomb (Wetherill) 
Hewson, was born in Philadelphia, October 16, 1859, 
and died in Richlands, Virginia, March 4, 1898. He 
entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and was 

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graduated B. S. in 1879. He practiced his profession as 
a civil and mining engineer in Leadville, Colorado, 
Santa Fe and other places in New Mexico, Montana, 
Cuba and Mexico. He settled in Virginia, was for a 
time superintendent of the Clinch Valley Coal and Iron 
Company, and at the time of his death was in business 
at Richlands, Virginia. 

He married Catherine Stephenson. Their children 
are 

Emily, 

Ella, 

Rachel, 

Thomas Tickell. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Franklin Scientific Society; Athletic Associa- 
tion ; University Orchestra. 

Sophomore: Class Foot Ball Team; University Foot Ball 
Team. 

Junior: Class Foot Ball Team; University Foot Ball 
Team. 

Senior: Class Foot Ball Team; University Foot Ball 
Team. 

Howell, Edgar Carpenter, real estate operator, 
son of William and Rebecca Thorn (Robbins) Howell, 
was born in Philadelphia, February 14, 1859. He en- 
tered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and left at 
the close of freshman year. He has since been engaged 
in real estate and building operations. 

He married in Chester, Pa., June 27, 1883, Mary 
Dixon, daughter of William Albert Wilson. Their chil- 
dren are 

Edgar Carpenter, b. February 2y, 1886. 
Lillian, b. February 10, 1892. 
Address: 1221 Arch Street, Philadelphia. 

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EDGAR C. HOWELL. 




WALTER 0. HULME. 



HuLME, Walter Oliphant, United States Navy, son 
of Joseph Morgan and Margaret Burr (Oliphant) 
Hulme, was born in Mount Holly, N. J., December 5, 
1859. He entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 
and left during freshman year. He entered the United 
States Naval Academy in 1880; was commissioned en- 
sign July I, 1886; lieutenant October 4, 1895; lieu- 
tenant, senior grade, 1898. He served with the North 
Atlantic Squadron during the revolution on the Isth- 
mus of Panama, 1886; on the U. S. Coast and Geodetic 
Survey 1886-88; as aide-de-camp to commander in chief 
of United States forces on South Atlantic and South 
Pacific stations during Chilian revolution, 1890-91; 
aide-de-camp to commandant New York navy yard, 
1893; flag secretary to commander in chief European 
Squadron, 1893-94; on board nautical schoolship St. 
Mary's, 1895-96; U. S. training ship Essex, 1897-98; 
U. S. S. Puritan, March and April, 1898; commanding 
U. S. S. Choctaw, Auxiliary Naval Force, Eighth Dis- 
trict, during Spanish war; Executive Officer, Pensacola 
navy yard, August, 1898, to date. He has visited, in 
the naval service, all parts of the world except eastern 
and southern Asia. He is a member of the New York 
and Larchmont Yacht Clubs, and of the University 
Club of New York. 

He married in Washington, D. C, October 19, 
1898, Edyth, daughter of Richard Barry Mohun. 

Address: Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 

Hunt, George Wood, son of William (Medical 
Class of 1849) ^^^ Rebecca (Price) Hunt, was born in 
Philadelphia, May 12, i860. He entered the Depart- 
ment of Arts in 1875, ^"^ was graduated A. B., 1879, 

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and A. M., 1882. He is a member of the fraternity of 
Delta Psi. After graduation he was engaged in the 
coal business until May, 1885, then spent five years 
abroad, and 1891-94 was engaged with the Guyandot 
Coal Land Association in West Virginia. Since that 
time he has been in poor health and has no present 
occupation. 

He is unmarried. 

Address: 1300 Spruce Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : A ^ ; Philomathean Society ; Franklin Scientific 
Society; Athletic Association; College Boat Club; Cricket Club, 

Freshman: Class Corresponding Secretary; Class Base 
Ball Team, Cricket Eleven and Glee Club. 

Sophomore : Class Crew, Cricket Eleven and Foot Ball 
Team. 

Junior : Class Crew, Cricket Eleven, Foot Ball Team 
and Glee Club; Umpire University Foot Ball Team. 

Senior: Class Foot Ball Team; Umpire University Foot 
Ball Team. 

Hurley, Charles Bender, engineer, son of William 
Hopkins and Almira Francis (Bender) Hurley, was 
born in Philadelphia, April 7, 1859. He entered the 
Towne Scientific School in 1874 with the Class of 1878, 
joined the Class of 1879 in 1875 ^.nd left at the close of 
freshman year. He took a course in civil engineering 
at the Pennsylvania Polytechnic College, receiving the 
degree of B. C. E. in 1879. 1879-80, he was assistant 
engineer Northern Pacific Railroad; 1881-83, division 
engineer Mexican National Construction Company; 
1884-85, assistant engineer Schuylkill River East Side 
Railroad; 1886-89, general manager Pennsylvania 
Natural Gas Company, Pittsburgh; 1889-93, general 
manager Tacoma Light and Water Company; 1895 to 
date, president and general manager Tacoma Gas and 

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TOSUI IMADATE. 



Electric Light Company, Commercial Electric Light 
and Power Company, Tacoma, and president Alaska 
Light and Power Company, Skaguay and Dyea, Alaska. 

He married at Portland, Oregon, January 21, 1891, 
Ada, daughter of John McCraken. They have one 
daughter 

Madeline, b. July 20, 1898. 

Address: Tacoma, Washington. 

Imadate, Tosui, civil officer, son of Norinaga Ima- 
date and Reu Nishino, was born in the province of 
Echizen, Japan, March 3, 1856. He entered the Towne 
Scientific School in 1875 and was graduated B. S. in 
1879. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. 
He came to the United States with William Elliott 
Griffis, who acknowledges his constant assistance in the 
preparation of Mr. Griffis's work, The Mikado's Em- 
pire. After graduation he returned to Japan. 1879-87 
he was director of the Intermediate School, Kyoto; 
1887-89, secretary in the Foreign Department; 1889-93, 
secretary H. I. J. M.'s legation, Pekin; and during 1895 
served as a civil officer under the Governor General of 
the occupied territory of Leao-tung Peninsula in China. 
His own report of himself, after a long silence, is as fol- 
lows : 

"AOMONOCH, NiHONBASHIKU, 

ToKio, Japan, Sept. 17th, 1898. 
J. M. Gest, Esq. 

Dear Sir, — Your latest favor of the 23rd July is at hand. I 
have much to apologyze you for not replying promptly your 
communications. I will not mention here any causes for my 
long silence. I should rather bear all the blames for having 
dropped all my interest in the class affairs. You will at least 
find out by this note that I am still living. Since last year, I 
am undertaking various new schemes, none of them yet comes to 
bear fruit. It is my never changing wish that I should revisit 

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the 'Glorious America' and see my old classmates again, but I 
must come to your country with something to tell you. 

Enclosed you will find my photo lately art-typed, you will see 
me in it dressed in court uniform. 

With my best wishes to you and to my classmates I am, Dear 
Mr. Gest, 

Yours very truly, 

Tosui Imadate." 

He married in Kyoto in September, 1880, Yoshika 
Hanazono, who died in 1897. He has no children. 

Address: Aomonocho, Nihonbashiku, Tokio, 
Japan. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: $K^; Franklin Scientific Society; Cricket Club; 
Chess Club. 

Freshman : Honors of first grade. 

Sophomore : Vice President Franklin Scientific Society. 

Junior: Class Vice President; Curator Franklin Scientific 
Society. 

Senior: Class Vice President; Commencement Orator; 
Honors of third grade (Rank No. 6). 

Jack, Arthur Garrett, son of Louis and Thankful 
(Corbus) Jack, was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, 
March 6, 1859. ^^ entered the Towne Scientific 
School in 1875 and left at the end of sophomore year. 
He was a student at the Michig-an State Agricultural 
College, 1879. 1880-88 he was a farmer; 1888 to date, 
he has been in business. 

He married in Philadelphia in 1885 Mary E., 
daughter of Richard R. Button. Their children are 
Richard Button, b. February 7, 1886. 
Caroline, b. November i, 1887. 
Arthur Corbus, b. October 12, 1892. 
Address: 511 South Orange Street , Media, Pa. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Athletic Association. 
Sophomore: Class Recording Secretary. 

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ARTHUR G. JACK. 




FREDERICK V. JARDEN. 




WALTER H. JARDEN. 



Jarden, Frederick Van Leer, engineer, son of 
Samuel H. (Class of 1843) ^^^ Amanda M. (Schaeffer) 
Jarden, was born in Philadelphia, April 29, 1857. He 
entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 ^^^ ^^~ 
ceived a certificate of proficiency in 1879. He was for 
about two years in the engineering service of the gov- 
ernment and then entered the service of the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad and is now an assistant engineer in the 
Department of Maintenance of Way. 

He married in Warwick, Chester County, Pennsyl- 
vania, June 9, 1 88 1, Mary, daughter of Lewis Cass 
Templin. They have no children. 

Address: 1406 North Thirteenth Street, Philadel- 
phia. 

Jarden, Walter Hahn, lithographer, son of Samuel 
H. (Class of 1843) ^^^ Amanda M. (Schaeffer) Jarden, 
was born in Philadelphia, November 29, 1859. He 
entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and v/as 
graduated B. S. in 1879. After one year spent in post- 
graduate work at the University in chemistry and metal- 
lurgy he was chemist at the Edge Hill Iron Works, 
afterwards in the fruit preserving business for a year, 
then took up the business of lithographing and printing 
and has been in the lithographing business under the 
firm name of W. H. Jarden & Co., since 1889. He is a 
member of the Philadelphia Lithographers Association. 

He married in Philadelphia, November 29, 1898, 
Gertrude S. Finley. 

Address: 1828 Green Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Senior: Honors of third grade (Rank No. 5). 

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Jayne, Henry La Barre, lawyer, son of David and 
Hannah (Fort) Jayne, was born in Philadelphia, No- 
vember 3, 1857. He entered the Department of Arts 
in 1875 ^^<i was graduated A. B. in 1879. ^^ i^ a 
member of the Zeta Psi fraternity and was Class His- 
torian. After graduation he studied law in the office 
of George W. Biddle, Esq., was admitted to the Phila- 
delphia Bar in 1881 and spent a year, 1882-83, in the 
study of political economy (under Roscher) and civil 
law at Leipsic. In 1884 he formed a partnership with 
Arthur Biddle, this firm merging in 1891 in the firm of 
Biddle & Ward of Philadelphia and New York. In 
1896 he was admitted to the Supreme Court of the 
United States. Besides being actively engaged in prac- 
tice he has devoted much time to politics, as a reformer. 
He has never held political office. He founded in the 
University the Prize for the best English composition 
by a member of the freshman class; also at Princeton a 
Prize for the best entrance examination to Princeton 
from Philadelphia. He is a director of the Pennsyl- 
vania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, a member of 
the American Philosophical Society, Law Association 
of Philadelphia, American Bar Association, Athenaeum 
of Philadelphia and University, Rittenhouse and Junior 
Legal Clubs of Philadelphia. 

He married in Boston, May 25, 1893, Elisabeth 
daughter of Nathan Matthews. They have no children. 

Address: 505 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : Z -t ; Philomathean Society ; Franklin Scien- 
tific Society; Athletic Association; Cricket Club; Chess Club; 
Dramatic Club; Glee Club. 

Freshman: Second Matriculate Greek Prize; Vice 
President Class; Curator Franklin Scientific Society. 

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HENRY LA BARRE JAYNE. 




HORACE JAYNE. 



Sophomore : Treasurer and President Franklin Scientific 
Society. 

Junior : Class Glee Club. 

Senior : Class Historian ; Treasurer Glee Club. 



Jayne, Horace Fort, scientist, son of David and 
Hannah (Fort) Jayne, was born in Philadelphia, March 
17, 1859. He entered the Department of Arts in 1875 
and was graduated A. B. in 1879. He is a member of 
the Zeta Psi fraternity. He entered the Medical De- 
partment and was graduated M. D. in 1882, first in the 
class, taking the Henry C. Lea prize for the best thesis 
on graduation and dividing the Anomaly and Anatomi- 
cal prizes offered by the Demonstrator of Anatomy with 
Howard A. Kelly (Class of 1877). He is a member of 
Phi Beta Kappa. In 1893 he received the honorary 
degree of Ph. D. from Franklin and Marshall College. 
In 1882 he was appointed Assistant Instructor of Biol- 
ogy in the University. 1882-83 he studied at the Uni- 
versity of Leipsic; 1883-84, at Johns Hopkins. In 1884 
he was appointed professor of Vertebrate Morphology 
on the organization of the department of Biology in the 
University, and in 1888 Professor of Biology. In his 
Report of 1888 the Provost, after speaking of the satis- 
factory work of the school, says: "I cannot forbear 
mention of the devotion and constant liberality shown 
by the Secretary, Dr. Horace Jayne, to whom the estab- 
lishment and extension of this school are chiefly due." 
1889-94, he was Dean of the College, and 1892-94, Dean 
of the Faculty of Philosophy. Speaking of the College 
in his Report of 1893 the Provost says: ''I again refer 
you to the appended report of the Dean, to whose good 
judgment and eminent administrative ability the De- 
partment owes much of its satisfactory condition, both 

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in improved accommodations for business and instruc- 
tion, and in the gradual development of its courses and 
curricula to the highest educational advantage." He 
resigned his professorship in the College Faculty in 
1895, having been appointed in 1894 director of the 
Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, which posi- 
tion he still holds. He has published: Mammalian 
Anatomy, a text book; numerous scientific and educa- 
tional papers, reports, reviews, &c. He is a member of 
the American Philosophical Society; Association of 
American Anatomists; Academy of Natural Sciences; 
Society of American Naturalists; American Entomo- 
logical Society; fellow of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science and of the College of 
Physicians; member of the Rittenhouse and University 
Clubs, and the Wistar Association of Philadelphia. 

He married at Wallingford, Delaware County, Pa., 
October 10, 1894, Caroline Augusta, daughter of 
Horace Howard Furness. Their children are 
Kate Furness, b. July 29, 1895. 
Horace, b. June 9, 1898. 

Address: Wistar Institute, Philadelphia. 
\ Undergraduate Record. 

Member : Z i' ; Franklin Scientific Society ; Athletic As- 
sociation ; Chess Club. 

Freshman : Vice President Franklin Scientific Society. 

Sophomore: Curator and Corresponding Secretary Frank- 
lin Scientific Society. 

Junior : Junior Day Orator ; Treasurer Franklin Scientific 
Society. 

Senior: Class Record Committee (and drew most of the 
Record illustrations). 

Jefferys, Henry Scott, clergyman, son of William 
Henry and Maria Susan (Scott) Jefferys, was born in 
Clarksboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey, June 15, 

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HENRY S. JEFFERYS. 



i853- He entered the Department of Arts in 1874 in 
the Class of 1878, was the Bowl-man of that class and 
until the close of his college course vigorously opposed 
the bowl-fight, printing a pamphlet against it in 1875 
and attacking it in the University Magazine, but, as he 
writes in 1898, ''failed to break up the barbarous cus- 
tom." On account of his father's illness he was 
obliged to leave college for one year and on his return 
entered the Class of 1879 at the beginning of junior 
year, and was graduated A. B., 1879 and A. M., 1882. 
After graduation he took post-graduate instruction in 
the University in history, social science and meta- 
physics, and he has passed his examination in the 
Japanese language, colloquial. He was ordained 
deacon in 1879 ^"^ priest in 1880. In 1879 he was 
curate of Gloria Dei (Old Swedes) Church, and in 1880 
of Epiphany Chapel, Philadelphia; in 1881 of St. 
Matthew's Church and School, San Mateo, in 1883 of 
Trinity Church, San Francisco, and in 1885 of St. 
Paul's, Los Angeles, California. He founded four 
missions and built three churches in California and in 
1887-88 was editor of the Apostolic Churchman, pub- 
lished at Los Angeles. In 1889 he went as a missionary 
to Japan, founded St. Matthias's Church, Mayebashi 
Joshiu, was professor of Latin and History in the 
Keiyogijaku University, 1891, and in Zoshikwan, Sat- 
suma, founded Christ Church, Sendai, N. E. Japan, 
1894, and in 1898 was the only priest of the Japan 
Church between Tokio and Plirosaki, over 500 miles. 
He has been a member of the Yu Do Kwai ethical 
club and Soldiers' Club, and is a member of the Japanese 
Red Cross Society. He has published in Japanese a 
tract on the Resurrection of Christ and many newspaper 

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and magazine articles, mostly in Japanese. He writes : 
''The motto of the Class 'To the Front' has sunk into 
my heart and I have tried not to waste my weakness on 
anything aside from my vocation as a missionary. This 
in addition to my well-known incapacity will account for 
the blanks in the record. Some people say that I am 
'erratic/ My record appears to show this fact, but be 
it remembered that since 1882 I have had my soul fixed 
upon Japan, and although there were many adversaries 
from my Bishop (Rest his soul!) down, by the blessing 
of God I am here and I hope to have my bones rest 
here. Put that in my obituary. 

'Tn answer to 16 I enclose a catechism translated 
under my editorship. It is now out of print. The 
Apology of Socrates and Crito were translated in epit- 
ome at my suggestion by Mr. Chikami Kyoshi, then 
Vice Principal of the Zoshikwan, Kagoshima, Satsuma, 
and now Governor of this Prefecture. 

'T also committed the sin of not consulting either 
the Revd. Geo. S. Fullerton or his publishers, but got 
the Tract Society here to publish his 'Plain Argument 
for the Being of God.' The translation work is being 
done under the editorship of Rev. T. T. Alexander a 
Cumberland Presbyterian and a thinner man than I am 
but a better — only a cannibal would differ from me. 

'T have had translated 'A Primer of Ethics' by B. 
B. Comegys, Esq., with his permission and help — and 
if that translator don't hurry up and get it done I shall 
be forced to do a good deal of the work myself. 

"My literary labors mostly consist in laying out 
work for other men and badgering them to finish it. 

'Tf I think a thing ought to be done and I cannot 
tease or bully some one else into doing it, I put my 

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DAVIDSON KENNEDY. 



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hand to the wheel, but I can't claim all the credit for the 
present literary activity in Japan. We all help along by 
little shoves here and there often repeated. 

"The fact is with a population thick as flies, with 
cranky subordinates, whO' think 'the tail should wag the 
dog,' it's pretty hard to find much time for side shows — 
the main circus demands all our attention. 

"Pardon the prolixity of this epistle and send me 
a 'Matriculate Catalogue of 1894' (Draw on Treasurer 
as above) to keep me quiet until the 'Record' is out. 
Love to all the old boys. 

As ever yours, 
eartily 

ENRY S. JeFFERYS." 

He married in San Francisco, October 28, 1884, 

Mary Eleanor Beers. Their children are 

Mary Constance. 

Margaret Rebecca, deceased. 

Dorothea Ida. 

James Godfrey. 

Lewis McKim. 

Address: No. 6, Kata Hira Cho, Sendai, North 

East Japan. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Philomathean Society; University Literary As- 
sociation ; Glee Club ; Cricket Club. 

Junior : Editor University Magazine. 
Senior: Third Prize Philo. Debate. 

Kennedy, Davidson, stock broker, son of Elias D. 
and Agnes Shields (Clarke) Kennedy, was born in 
Philadelphia, April 22, 1859. He entered the Depart- 
ment of Arts as a partial student in 1875 ^^^ ^^^^ at the 
close of the first term junior year. He is a member of 

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the fraternity of Delta Psi. After leaving he engaged 
in business as a stock broker. He is a member of the 
Athletic Association of the University, and has given 
considerable time to its interests as a graduate member, 
particularly in rowing matters. He is a member of the 
University and Union League Clubs of Philadelphia. 

He is unmarried. 

Address : 308 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : A -f; Athletic Association ; College Boat Club. 
Sophomore : Class Crew and Foot Ball Team. 
Junior: Class Crew. 
Senior: University Crew. 

*Kenney_, Charles Henry, mechanical engineer, son 
of Henry Fletcher and Mary Frances (Ide) Kenney, 
was born in Philadelphia, June 2y, 1857, and died in 
Ridley Park, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, May 28, 
1882. He entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 
and left during sophomore year. 1877-78 he studied at 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 1879-82 
he was a special apprentice in the mechanical shops of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr. Theodore N. Ely, 
Chief of Motive Power, writes of him, ''He was intelli- 
gent, industrious and energetic, and entered upon any 
special work with much enthusiasm, and prosecuted it 
with satisfaction to his employers. I remember having 
written him in 1882 concerning his work, and the follow- 
ing quotation will best describe his standing: Tt gives 
me pleasure to send you, as one of the assistants in the 
signal work at Broad Street Station, a voucher which is 
intended to indicate to you that the Company is greatly 
pleased with the services rendered by yourself in con- 
nection with the work above referred to.' This early 

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CHARLES HENRY KENNEY. 




JAMES B. KINLEY. 



promise of further success in his chosen profession 
would certainly have been fully realized had he not been 
cut off at the very threshold of his career. His gentle 
nature brought friends to him from among his employers 
and fellow employees alike, and we all mourned his loss." 
He was unmarried. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Freshman: Class Glee Club. 

KiNLEY, James Brooks, lawyer, son of Hugh and 
Agnes (Brooks) Kinley, was born in Curglasson, 
County Tyrone, Ireland, January 21, 1859. He entered 
the Towne Scientific School in 1875, left at the close 
of the freshman year, spent two years in Europe, re- 
joined the class as a partial student in the Department of 
Arts in 1878 and received a certificate of proficiency in 
1879. H^ studied law, was admitted to the Philadel- 
phia Bar in 1882, and has since practiced in Philadel- 
phia. He is a member of the Athletic Association, 
General Alumni Society and Archaeological Associa- 
tion of the University, the Law Association of Philadel- 
phia and the University, Germantown Cricket and Phil- 
adelphia Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia and Royal Port- 
rush Golf Club of Portrush, Ireland. 

He married in Philadelphia, March 9, 1882, Ellen 
D., daughter of Joseph Laning Osier. Their children 
are 

Edith, b. February 12, 1883. 

Arthur Ernest, b. June 22, 1885. 

Constance Eleanor, b. October 18, 1886. 

Edward Sidney, b. February 14, 1892. 

Dorothy Margaret, b. October 17, 1893. 

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Address: 411 Real Estate Trust Building-, Phila- 
delphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Franklin Scientific Society; Athletic Associa- 
tion. 

Freshman : Class Glee Club. 

Lawrance, James Peyton Stuart, United States 
Navy, son of Edward Shinn and Aramintha Margaret 
Annie Peyton (Stuart) Lawrance, was born in Philadel- 
phia, August 6, 1852. He was graduated M. E. at 
Lehigh University, 1873, where he was awarded the 
essay prize and was Commencement Speaker. He was 
in the machine shops of John Roach & Sons at Chester, 
Pennsylvania, for about one year, and then entered the 
navy as an engineer officer, being commissioned Assist- 
ant Engineer, 1875, Passed Assistant Engineer, June 
16, 1883, and Chief Engineer, 1896. He served on the 
China Station, 1875-78; Pacific Station, 1879-82; Navy 
Department, Washington, 1882-85; cruised around the 
world on the Juniata, 1885-89, and was stationed at the 
Norfolk Navy Yard, 1889-94. In 1878 he obtained a 
six months' leave of absence from the Department to 
take the course in analytical chemistry at the University, 
entered the Towne Scientific School as a special student 
in 1878, and left in 1879. The practical application of 
his chemical knowledge came in 1894 when he was 
ordered to Pittsburgh as steel inspector at Homestead, 
where he made all the steel analyses for the Government. 
He has been three times around the world, ten times 
across the equator, one thousand miles into the interior 
of China, across Panama, through the Straits of Magel- 
lan, Suez Canal, &c. May 10, 1897, he became Chief 
Engineer of the gunboat Wilmington, served through 

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JAMES P. S. LAWRANCE. 




HORACE H. LEE. 



the Spanish war, and took part in the blockade of Cuba. 
He has written two plays, not yet published, and is a 
member of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers, the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, the Metropolitan Club of Washington, Pitts- 
burgh Club of Pittsburgh and Fort Monroe Club of 
Fortress Monroe. 

He is unmarried. 

Address : Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 

Leaming, Thomas, lawyer, son of Robert Wain 
(Class of 1844) and Julia (Scott) Leaming was born in 
Philadelphia, May 29, 1858. He entered the Depart- 
ment of Arts in 1875 and left, on account of illness, dur- 
ing freshman year. He studied law, was admitted to 
the Philadelphia Bar in 1884 and has since been in 
active practice. He is a member of the Historical So- 
ciety of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Society Sons of the 
Revolution and of the Philadelphia and Rittenhouse 
Clubs of Philadelphia. 

He married in Philadelphia, June 18, 1888, Joseph- 
ine Lea, daughter of John R. Baker (Class of 1837). 
They have no children. 

Address: 1004 Land Title Building, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Athletic Association. 

Freshman: Class Vice President; Class Glee Club. 

Lee, Horace Hoffman, banker and broker, son of 
John Kidd and Hannah Rose (Hoffman) Lee, was born 
in Philadelphia, October 23, 1859. He entered the De- 
partment of Arts in 1875 and was graduated A. B. in 
1879. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fra- 

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ternity. He was the leading American college athlete 
in 1877 and 1878. After graduation he engaged in 
business as a banker and broker and has been a member 
of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange since 1884, and a 
Governor of it since 1890. He is a member of the Ath- 
letic Association and Houston Club of the University 
and the Union League Club of Philadelphia. 

He married in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 29, 1885, 
May Florence, daughter of James Whitelaw Sibley. 
Their children are 

John Kidd, b. September 4, 1886. 
Horace Sibley, b. June 29, 1888. 
Caroline Hastings, b. January 2, 1897. 
Address: 420 Sansom Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : * K 2 ; Athletic Association. 

Freshman : Class Base Ball Team. 

Sophomore: Class Base Ball and Foot Ball Teams; Uni- 
versity Base Ball and Foot Ball Teams; Track Athletics, (Uni- 
versity) Fall Sports, Second in Standing Jump and Throwing 
Base Ball ; Spring Sports, won 100 Yards, Long Jump, Putting 
Shot and Throwing Base Ball; (Inter-Collegiate) won 100 
yards, 220 yards and Long Jump. 

Junior: Class Cricket Eleven, Base Ball and Foot Ball 
Teams; University Base Ball and Foot Ball Teams; Track 
Athletics (University) Fall Sports, won 100 yards, 220 yards. 
Hurdle Race, High Jump, Long Jump, Putting Shot, Throwing 
Hammer; (Inter-Collegiate) won 100 yards, 220 j^ards, second 
in Long Jump. 

Senior: Class Base Ball and Foot Ball Teams; Univer- 
sity Base Ball and Foot Ball Teams ; Track Athletics (Univer- 
sity) Fall Sports, won 100 yards, 220 yards and Putting Shot, 
second in Throwing Hammer, Spring Sports, won 100 yards, 220 
yards; (Inter-Collegiate) won 100 yards; Drop-kicked a goal on 
Princeton from 40 yard line; Honors of third grade (Rank No. 
II). 

'''Lewis, George Hail, son of Richard Anthony and 
Sarah Patterson (Hail) Lewis, was born in Philadelphia, 
May 22, 1859, and died in Worcester, Mass., March 2, 

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GEORGE H. LEWIS. 




WILLIAM LORENZ, JR. 



i88o. He entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 
and was graduated B. S. in 1879. He was a member of 
the Zeta Psi fraternity. After graduation he spent 
some time in Europe. 
He was unmarried. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : Z -f ; Franklin Scientific Society. 

Junior: President Franklin Scientific Society; Junior 
Prize Oration; Junior Day Orator. 

Senior: Treasurer Franklin Scientific Society; Honors of 
second grade (Rank No. 2). 

Lewis, Saunders, son of Saunders and Phoebe M. 
(James) Lewis, was born in Philadelphia, November 7, 
1858. He entered the Department of Arts in 1875, 
transferred to the Towne Scientific School in junior 
year and received a certificate of proficiency in 1879. 
He is a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. 
After leaving college he went into business and is now 
deputy clerk of the United States Circuit Court of Ap- 
peals, Third Circuit. He is a member of the Ritten- 
house Club of Philadelphia. 

He is unmarried. 

Address: Room 21, 3rd floor, Post Office Build- 
ing, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: *K 2; Athletic Association; University Orches- 
tra; Dramatic Club. 

Freshman : Class Executive Committee and Glee Club. 

Sophomore: Class Cricket Eleven and Foot Ball Team; 
Treasurer Athletic Association. 

Junior : Treasurer Athletic Association. 

Senior: Class Executive Committee, Foot Ball Team and 
Base Ball Team. 

*LoRENz_, William, chemist and metallurgist, son of 
William and Antoinette (Volz) Lorenz, was born in 

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Pottstown, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1858, and died in 
Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, August 10, 1881. He 
entered the Tow^ne Scientific School in 1875, ^^d was 
graduated B. S. in 1879. He was a member of the fra- 
ternity of Delta Psi. After graduation he had begun 
the practice of his profession, and was a member of the 
American Society of Mining Engineers. 
He was unmarried. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : A -^ ; Athletic Association ; Cricket Club. 

Freshman: Class Cricket Eleven and Glee Club; second 
in High Jump. 

Sophomore: Class Treasurer; Class Base Ball and Foot 
Ball Teams. 

Junior : Class Glee Club and Cricket Eleven. 

Senior : Class Treasurer. 

*LuDERS^ Charles Henry, poet, son of Thomas 
Lewis and Eleanor Coates (Harrison) Liiders, was born 
in Philadelphia, June 25, 1858, and died in Philadel- 
phia, January 21, 1891. He entered the Towne 
Scientific School in 1877 as a special student in 
junior and left during senior year. He was a chemist, 
and from 1881 until his death was Assistant Sec- 
retary and Superintendent of the Phosphor-Bronze 
Smelting Company of Philadelphia. He was joint 
author of "Hallo, My Fancy," "The Septameron," etc. 
In the editorial note introducing four of his poems in 
the Century Magazine for April, 1891, it is said of him, 
"Of the younger American poets he was one whose 
gift was developing in a distinctly individual direction. 
He had an intense love for Nature in all her moods, and 
his work shows how studiously he regarded her, and 
how intimately he knew her. His poems were purely 
lyrical, and frequently possessed a delicate idyllic quality 

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CHARLES HENRY LUDERS. 



peculiarly his own. A few pieces in blank verse are 
strongly imaginative and rich in imagery. He was a 
careful workman, slow to trust in the worth of what he 
produced, eager and glad for criticism, and ever striving 
to attain perfection in his art. Of the poems printed 
here, 'The Four Winds' was his favorite. His work — 
and there is enough of it for a small book — is character- 
ized by purity of thought, depth of feeling, fidelity to 
truth, and a melodiousness akin to the music of brooks. 
In these respects it is like his own manliness, sweetness 
of disposition, and sunniness of mind, of which the 
memory is fragrant and lasting." 

And in the same magazine after four of Liiders' 
poems is the following, by Frank Dempster Sherman: 

"Charles Henry Luders. 
(Died January 21, 1891.) 

"He is not dead to me, nor can be so ; 
For interwoven with the songs he made 
The living soul remains and shall not fall, 
But shine forever with a changeless glow, 

Thus when I read, the face I used to know 

Shall come again with smiles from out the shade, 

And I shall feel upon my shoulder laid 

His hand, and hear his dear voice speaking low. 

"Alas ! with all these memories of him, 

I cannot cheat my sorrow of the truth — 

The bell has rung, and Death has shut the door ; 

But, like a star beyond the shadows dim 
That weave the night, shines this pure soul of youth 
Among the souls of poets evermore !" 

After his death a collection of his poems made by 
several of his friends was published under the title "The 
Dead Nymph and other Poems." 

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He married in Philadelphia, September 8, i88i, 
Edith, daughter of Thomas J. Williamson. Mrs. 
Liiders died April i, 1893. Their children are 

Eleanor Louisa, b. June 14, 1882. 

Charles Williamson, b. August 14, 1883. 

Thomas Harrison, b. September 26, 1884. 

Edith, b. August 17, 1887. 

McCall, George, stock broker, son of George 
Archibald and Elizabeth (McMurtrie) McCall, was born 
in Chester County, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1858. 
He entered the Towne Scientific School as a special stu- 
dent in junior year, in 1877, 2-nd left in May, 1879. He 
is a member of the fraternity of Delta Psi. After leav- 
ing college he became a mechanical engineer and sub- 
sequently a stock broker. 

He married in Philadelphia, October 8, 1885, Mil- 
dred, daughter of Charles Carter, M. D. Their children 
are 

George Archibald, b. August 24, 1886. 
Richard Coxe, b. February 12, 1888. 
Shirley Carter, b. November 2y, 1897. 

Address: 435 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Member : A ^ ; Athletic Association ; Glee Club. 

McElroy, William, journalist, son of William 
James (Law Class of 1852) and Elizabeth Jane (Mc- 
Calla) McElroy, was born in Philadelphia, March 5, 
1858. He entered the Department of Arts in 1875 and 
left during the first term junior year. After leaving col- 
lege he was in the dry goods business until 1889, when 

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G1£0RG1:: MCCALL. 




JAMES \V. MCKINLEY. 



he entered journalism, being connected with the Times 
and Press of Philadelphia until 1891, when he went to 
the Pacific Coast. There he has been connected with 
the Portland Oregonian, 1891 ; San Francisco Examiner 
and Chronicle, 1892; Los Angeles Times and Herald and 
San Diego Union, 1894 to date. He is also interested 
in mining properties (gold and copper) and in the winter 
of 1894 spent five months in the Mojave Desert in con- 
nection with his mining interests. In May, 1898, he 
enlisted in the First California Cavalry, United States 
Volunteers. 

He is unmarried. 

Address: General Delivery, Los Angeles, Cali- 
fornia. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Member: Philomathean Society. 

McKiNLEY, James Wilfred, lawyer, son of Samuel 
and Harriet N. (Simpson) McKinley, was born in New 
Castle, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1857. He entered the 
Towne Scientific School in sophomore year in 1876 and 
left at the close of sophomore year. He matriculated 
in the Scientific Course in the University of Michigan in 
1877, there joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and was 
graduated B. S. in 1879. He was admitted to the Bar 
in 1881, practiced at New Castle, Pennsylvania, until 
1883, and then removed to Los Angeles, California. 
He was elected City Attorney in 1884, declined re- 
nomination after serving two years, was appointed 
judge of the Superior Court in 1889, elected to the same 
office for six years in 1890, and having declined a re- 
nomination resumed active practice in Los Angeles in 

1897. 

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He married in New Castle, Pennsylvania, October 
7, 1886, Lillian Elder. They have one son 
James Wilfred, b. July 8, 1891. 
Address: 308 Bullard Building, Los Angeles, Cal. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Member: Franklin Scientific Society. 

MiCHENER, William Weaver, merchant, son of 
John Hanson and Sarah Keyser (Gorgas) Michener, 
was born in Philadelphia, November 3, 1857. He en- 
tered the Department of Arts in 1875 and left during 
freshman year. He went into business with the firm of 
J. H. Michener & Co. of Philadelphia, went to Chicago 
to open a branch house in 1879 and became a member 
of the firm in 1881. Since 1879 he has had charge of 
the Chicago business of the firm in pork packing and 
wholesale provision dealing. He is a member of the 
Chicago Athletic Club. 

He married in Erie, Pennsylvania, October 12, 
1892, Adelaide, daughter of John S. Richards. They 
have one son 

John Hanson, b. September 14, 1894. 

Address: Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Member: Class Glee Club. 

Miller, Emlen Hare, lawyer, son of Elihu Spencer 
and Anna Emlen (Hare) Miller, was born in Philadel- 
phia, March 29, 1859. He entered the Department of 
Arts in 1875 and was graduated A. B. in 1879. After 
graduation he was for a time private secretary to the 
Right Reverend William Hobart Hare (Class of 1858) 
bishop of Niobrara. Subequently he returned to Phila- 
delphia, became a teacher and a journalist and later 

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WILLIAM W. MICHENER. 




W. EGBERT MITCHELL. 




BENJAMIN MONTEITH. 



studied law, and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar. 
He entered the Law School and was graduated LL. B. 
in 1894. Afterwards he removed to Virginia. 

He is unmarried. 

Address: Salem, Va. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Philomathean Society; Athletic Association; 
Cricket Club; Glee Club; Chess Club. 

Sophomore : Treasurer Chess Club. 

Junior: Second prize Philo. Debate; second prize Philo. 
Essay. 

Senior : Won One Mile Walk. 

Mitchell, William Egbert, lawyer, son of Thomas 
Mason and Virginia Morrison (Egbert) Mitchell, was 
born in Roxborough, Philadelphia, June 29, i860. He 
entered the Department of Arts in 1876 in sophomore 
year, and was graduated A. B. in 1879 and A. M. in 
1882. He was Instructor in History in the University 
1882-83. He afterwards studied law, and was admitted 
to the Philadelphia Bar in 1884. In 1899 he removed 
to California. 

He is unmarried. 

Address: Los Angeles, California. 
Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Athletic Association; University Orchestra. 
Senior: Commencement Orator; Honors of first grade 
(Rank No. 2). 

MoNTEiTH, Benjamin, actor, son of James and 
Elizabeth Dinsmore (McHenry) Monteith, was born in 
Philadelphia, September 26, 1857. He entered the De- 
partment of Arts in 1875 and left during freshman year. 
He became a student in the Department of Music in 
1889. He was organist of the Church of the Saviour, 
1881-83, organist and choirmaster Christ Church 

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Chapel, 1883-91, Philadelphia, and afterwards adopted 
the dramatic profession, and is now with Daniel Froh- 
man's Lyceum Company. 

He is unmarried. 

Address: 1414 Lombard Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Freshman : Class Glee Club. 

Montgomery, Richard, clergyman, son of William 
and Mary (Buchanan) Montgomery, was born in Phila- 
delphia, August 7, 1856. He entered the Department 
of Arts in sophomore year in 1876, and was graduated 
A. B., 1879 and A. M., 1882. He is a member of the 
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He entered the Princeton 
Theological Seminary in 1879, and was graduated in 
1882. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Philadel- 
phia, May I, 1882; ordained by the Presbytery of Phila- 
delphia North, December 19, 1882, and installed pastor 
of the Ashbourne Presbyterian Church, in which office 
he still continues. He was associate editor of the 
Presbyterian Journal 1887-91, and in 1893. 

He married in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, 
June 21, 1887, Lillie C, daughter of Casper W. Fetter. 
They have one son 

William B., b. January 30, 1889. 

Address: Ashbourne, Penna. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : 4> K •^ ; Philomathean Society ; Cricket Club ; 
Chess Club. 

Sophomore : Secretary Philo. ; Editor University Maga- 
zine. 

Junior : First Censor Philo. ; Editor University Magazine. 

Senior : Class Recording Secretary ; Second Prize Essay 
on Comparative Merits of Single and Double Standard in 
National Currency; Honors of third grade (Rank No. 6). 

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RICHARD MONTGOMERY. 




HARRY TAWS MOORE. 




CHARLES W. NEVIN. 



Moore, Harry Taws, salesman, son of Thomas 
(Medical Class of 1848) and Madeline V. (Taws) Moore, 
was born in Philadelphia, June 24, 1857. He entered 
the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and left during 
freshm.an year. 1880-85 -^^ was salesman with Wm. 
Wilson & Sons Co., silversmiths, and 1885 to date he 
has been salesman in the gas and electric fixtures busi- 
ness. 

He married in Germantown, Philadelphia, June 5, 
1895, Margaret, daughter of Benjamin Tilghman Mc- 
Murtrie. They have no children. 

Address: 1214 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 

Morris, James Cheston, farmer, son of James 
Cheston (Class of 185 1 and Med. Class of 1854) and 
Hannah Ann (Tyson) Morris, was born in Philadelphia, 
April I, 1861. He entered the Department of Arts in 
1875 and was graduated A. B. in 1879. After gradua- 
tion he was for a time connected with the Pottstown 
Iron Works, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, then engaged 
in stock raising near Cheyenne, Wyoming, and has now 
the Cedar Hill Farm, Montgomery County, Pennsyl- 
vania. He is a member of the Philadelphia Club. 

He married in Philadelphia, November 29, 1892, 
Helen, daughter of Alexander Dallas Campbell (Class 
of 1864). They have one daughter 

Mary Campbell, b. September 30, 1893. 

Address: Penllyn, Montgomery County, Penna. 
Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Franklin Scientific Society; Athletic Associa- 
tion; University Orchestra. 

Nevin, Charles Wordsworth, clergyman, son ol 
Edwin Henry and Ruth Channing (Little) Nevin, was 

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born in Boston, Massachusetts, February 2J, 1857. He 
entered the Department of Arts in 1875 and was grad- 
uated A. B., 1879, ^i^d A. M., 1886. After graduation 
he was engaged in newspaper work in Philadelphia and 
New York until 1884 when he entered Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1887 
after taking in addition to the regular course special 
courses in Hebrew and Philosophy. He has been 
pastor of Calvary Church, Riverton, N. J. ; First Church, 
Clifton Heights, Pa.; Scots' Church, Philadelphia, Pa.; 
and is now pastor of the South Broad Street Presbyte- 
rian Church, Philadelphia, Pa., of which he was the 
founder. He was examiner in Hebrew, Greek and 
Latin in the Presbytery of Monmouth, N. J., 1887-89, 
and associate editor Sunday School Times, Philadelphia, 
1890-91, and has written extensively on theological sub- 
jects for religious periodicals. 

He married in Riverton, N. J., October 11, 1888, 
Harriet Middleton, daughter of Edward H. Ogden. 
Their children are 

Dorothy, b. August 31, 1889. 

Ogden, b. May 10, 1891. 

Charles Wordsworth, b. June 24, 1895. 

Perot, b. April 29, 1897. 
Address: 2322 South Broad Street, Philadelphia. 
Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Philomathean Society; Athletic Association; 
University Glee Club and Orchestra; Class Glee Club. 

Senior: Commencement Orator; Honors of third grade 
(Rank No. 12). 

Nevin, William Latta, lawyer, son of Alfred and 
Sarah (Jenkins) Nevin, was born in Lancaster, Pennsyl- 
vania, August 9, 1859. He entered the Towne Scien- 

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WILLIAM L. NEVIN. 




ARTHUR E. NEWBOLD. 



tific School in 1875 and left at the beginning of junior 
year to enter the Law School from which he was grad- 
uated LL. B. in 1880. He is a member of the Zeta Psi 
fraternity. He was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar 
in 1880 and has since been practicing law in Philadel- 
phia. He is a member of the University Club of Phila- 
delphia. 

He is unmarried. 

Address: S. W. Cor. 13th & Market Streets, Phil- 
adelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : Z i- ; Athletic Association. 
Freshman: Class Corresponding Secretary; Class Glee 
Club. 

Newbold, Arthur Emlen, broker, son of John S. 
and Anna Penrose (Buckley) Newbold, was born in 
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, August 5, 1859. 
He entered the Department of Arts in 1875 and left dur- 
ing sophomore year. He is a member of the Zeta Psi 
fraternity. Since leaving college he has been engaged 
in business as a banker and broker and is a member of 
the firm of W. H. Newbold's Son & Co. In 1895 he 
was chosen Treasurer of the University and resigned the 
position in 1897. He is a member of the Philadelphia, 
Rittenhouse, Racquet, Country and Philadelphia 
Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia. 

He married in Philadelphia, February 25, 1886, 
Harriet, daughter of Fitz-Eugene Dixon. Their chil- 
dren are 

Anna Buckley, b. November 30, 1886. 
Arthur Emlen, b. July 31, 1888. 
Fitz-Eugene Dixon, b. February 20, 1893. 
Dorothy Emlen, b. March 8, 1899. 

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Address: 113 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : Z i^ ; Philomathean Society ; Athletic Associa- 
tion. 

Freshman : Honors of first grade ; Class Base Ball Team 
and Cricket Eleven. 

Sophomore : Treasurer Philo. ; Class Cricket Eleven. 

Nichols, Henry Sargent Prentiss, lawyer, son of 
Joseph Darwin and Emily (Darrah) Nichols, was born 
in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Novem- 
ber 2, 1858. He entered the Department of Arts in 
1875 ^^^ "w^s graduated A. B. in 1879. He is a mem- 
ber of Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation he studied 
law, was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 188 1 and 
has since been in active practice and has done consider- 
able law writing and reporting. He has been President 
of the Class continuously since graduation, is a member 
of the Alumni Society, Archaeological Association and 
Athletic Association of the University, also of the Law 
Association of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bar Associa- 
tion, American Bar Association, Historical Society of 
Pennsylvania, Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
Society Sons of the Revolution, and of the University 
Club of Philadelphia. 

He married in Germantown, Philadelphia, June 4, 
1895, Isabel, daughter of John Mcllhenny. They have 
no children. 

Address: 411 Real Estate Trust Building, Phila- 
delphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Philomathean Society; Athletic Association. 
Freshman : Honors of first grade. 

Sophomore : Second Censor Philo. ; Editor University 
Magazine. 

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H. S. PRENTISS NICHOLS. 




JAMES C. PASCAL. 



Junior: Honors of first grade; Editor in chief Univer- 
sity Magazine; Class Corresponding Secretary; Chairman Class 
Executive Committee. 

Senior : Moderator of Philo. ; Editor in chief University 
Magazine; Class Vice President; Chairman Class Executive 
Committee; Honors of first grade (Rank No. 3). 



*Page^ Charles Henry, stock broker, son of Joseph 
F. and Ellen (Hansell) Page, was born in Philadelphia, 
January 8, 1858, and died in Philadelphia July 2y, 1892. 
He entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and left 
at the close of the first term junior year. He was a 
member of the Zeta Psi fraternity. After leaving col- 
lege he went into business as a stock broker and at the 
time of his death was the junior member of the firm of 
E. D. Page & Bro., members of the Philadelphia and 
New York Stock Exchanges. On the morning of July 
2.J^ 1892, he was shot and almost instantly killed in his 
office by a former customer of the firm whose mind was 
supposed to have been unsettled by losses in stocks 
about a year earlier, who was a constant visitor at the 
office, and who immediately shot and killed himself. 

He married in Philadelphia Rebecca Gibson, daugh- 
ter of William Grosholz. They had one child. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Z ■^ \ Philomathean Society; Franklin Scientific 
Society. 

Pascal, James Campbell, clerk, son of Charles 
Lacroix and Mary Stuart (Campbell) Pascal, was born 
in Philadelphia, December 23, 1857. He entered the 
Towne Scientific School in 1875 and left at the close of 
the first term freshman year. After leaving he took a 
practical course in mechanics in the foundry of Wm. 
Sellers & Co., afterwards in the drawing room and 

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machine shop of Wm. B. Bement & Sons, and subse- 
quently with Pancoast & Maule. He is now in the 
office of the Keystone Mutual Fire Insurance Company. 
He was for a time a member of Keystone Battery A, 
National Guard of Pennsylvania. 

He is unmarried. 

Address: 925 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 

*Pauly^ Charles Santee, son of Louis Lawshe and 
Hannah Painter (Statzell) Pauly, was born in Philadel- 
phia, May 15, 1856, and died in Philadelphia, March 15, 
1884. He entered the Department of Arts in 1875 ^.nd 
was graduated A. B. in 1879 and A. M. in 1882. He 
was not strong, and after graduation he did some work 
as a tutor, but ill-health prevented his undertaking the 
study of a profession. 

He was unmarried. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Member: Philomathean Society; Chess Club. 

Pike, Granville Ross, clergyman, son of Perley 
French and Mary Ann (Reed) Pike, was born in Athens 
County, Ohio, January 6, 1856. He entered the De- 
partment of Arts in 1875 ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ close of fresh- 
man year. He entered Hamilton College, and was 
there graduated A. B., 1880, and A. M., 1883; and 
1880-83 took the theological course at Auburn Theo- 
logical Seminary. In 1893-94 he took a post-graduate 
course in philosophy, sociology and comparative re- 
ligion in the University of Chicago. He was pastor 
Elbridge, N. Y., 1883-84; Clayville, N. Y., 1884-88; 
Fargo, N. D., 1888-93; Pullman, 111., 1894-97; spent the 
greater part of 1898 in European travel and study arid 

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CARL S. PAULY. 




GRANVILLE R. PIKE. 




A. ADEN POWELL. 



has been pastor Millard Avenue Presbyterian Church, 
Chicago, 111., 1898 to date. In 1885 he was Commis- 
sioner to the Synod of New York; in 1886-87 Modera- 
tor of the Presbytery of Utica; in 1891 Commissioner to 
the Presbyterian General Assembly; and in 1896 Com- 
missioner to the Synod of Illinois. He is a member of 
the American Institute of Christian Philosophy and the 
Victoria Institute of Great Britain. He has published 
numerous magazine articles on theological and other 
topics and also The Divine Drama. 

He married (i) at Clinton, N. Y., December 20, 
1880, Anna Louisa, daughter of Daniel James Many; 
(2) at Clayville, N. Y., June 30, 1886, Clara Jane, 
daughter of Warren Bragg; and (3) at Pullman, 111., 
April 7, 1898, Jennie Ross, daughter of John Neill. 
His children are 

Gertrude May, b. March 30, 1887. 

Anna Clara, b. September 16, 1888. 
Address: 1090 Lawndale Avenue, Chicago, 111. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Freshman : Member Bowl Committee. 

Powell, Alexander Aden, surveyor, son of Alex- 
ander Aden and Martha Cook (Park) Powell, was born 
in Gloucester City, N. J., June 18, 1848. He entered 
the Department of Arts in 1875 and was graduated 
A. B., 1879 and A. M., 1883. He was Bowl-man of the 
class. 1879-81 he was engaged in teaching; 1883-84, 
editor and publisher Gloucester Weekly Tribune; 
1887-90, principal of public schools, Ewans Mills, N. J.; 
1891-94, principal of a private school in Gloucester 
City. He is a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, having been ordained a deacon in 1885, and is a 

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member of the Epworth League. His present occupa- 
tion is that of surveyor, with conveyancing and kindred 
occupations. He is engaged in the preparation of a 
set of property-books and a map of Gloucester City. 

He married in Gloucester City, N. J., October 7, 
1896, Amanda C, daughter of Benjamin Davis. They 
have one son 

Park Davis, b. April 12, 1898. 

Address : 303 Market Street, Gloucester City, N. J. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Philomathean Society. 
Freshman : Bowl Man. 

^Ralston, William Meredith, son of Francis Wil- 
liam and Elizabeth Caldwell (Meredith) Ralston, was 
born m Philadelphia, October 26, 1859, and died in At- 
lantic City, New Jersey, June 4, 1889. He entered the 
Department of Arts in 1875 and left during junior year. 
He was a member of the fraternity of Delta Psi. After 
graduation he was connected with the Philadelphia and 
Reading Railroad, the Reading Iron Works, and sev- 
eral firms in the iron business in New York and Phila- 
delphia. 

He was unmarried. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : A -f ; Athletic Association ; Cricket Club. 

Freshman : Class Cricket Eleven. 

Sophomore: Class Cricket Eleven and Foot Ball Team; 
University Cricket Eleven; Won One Mile Run. 

Junior: Captain Class Cricket Eleven; Class Foot Ball 
Team; second in One Mile Run. 

Read, Edmund Elliott, lawyer, son of John S. and 
Harriet (Peak) Read, was born in Camden, New Jersey, 
August 7, 1859. He entered the Department of Arts 

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EDMUND E. READ. 





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THOMAS REATH. 



in 1875 and was graduated A. B. in 1879. He studied 
law and has been practicing in Camden and serving as 
director of several corporations. He is a member of 
the Astronomical Society of Liverpool, England, and 
the Astronomical Society, of Camden, New Jersey, and 
has done much astronomical work. He is a member of 
the University Club of Philadelphia. 

He married in Camden, New Jersey, December 27, 
1882, Margaret W., daughter of John W. Mulford. 
They have one son 

John S., b. November 11, 1883. 

Address: 2,2"] Federal Street, Camden, N. J. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Philomathean Society; Chess Club. 

Junior: Secretary Philo. 

Senior: Philo. Prize Oration; Henry Reed (Essay) 
Prize; Commencement Orator; Honors of third grade (Rank 
No. 8). 



Reath, Thomas, lawyer, son of Benjamin Brannan 
(Class of 1841) and Emma Hannah (Wood) Reath, was 
born in Philadelphia, January 18, 1859. He entered the 
Department of Arts in 1875 ^"^ was graduated A. B., 
1879 ^i^d A. M., 1882. He is a member of the Phi 
Kappa Sigma fraternity. After graduation he studied 
law, entered the Law School and was graduated LL. B. 
in 1883. He was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 
1883 and has since been practicing law in Philadelphia. 
He is a member of the Athletic Association of the Uni- 
versity and was Chairman of its Rowing Committee in 
1896, and its Vice-President in 1897. He is a member 
of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, and 
of the Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia. 

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He married in Philadelphia, April 4, 1888, Eliza 
Andrews, daughter of Samuel W. Groome. Their chil- 
dren are 

Thomas, b. November 2, 1890. 
Nancy Andrews, b. October 2J, 1894. 
Address: 700 Girard Building, Philadelphia. 
Undergraduate Record. 

Member : * K 2 ; Athletic Association ; College Boat Club. 

Freshman: Director Athletic Association; Second in long 
jump; Class Executive and Bowl Committees and Glee Club. 

Sophomore : Corresponding Secretary Athletic Associa- 
tion; Second Lieutenant College Boat Club; Class Executive 
Committee, Foot Ball Team and Cricket Eleven. 

Junior : Second Lieutenant College Boat Club ; Class 
President; Class Crew and Glee Club. 

Senior : Second Lieutenant College Boat Club ; Class Foot 
Ball Team and Base Ball Team. 

*RiHL, Percy Eugene, stenographer, son of Jacob 
Lawrence and Hannah H. (Breece) Rihl, was born in 
Philadelphia, February 12, 1861, and died in Philadel- 
phia, January 28, 1889. He entered the Towne Scien- 
tific School in 1875 and left during the first term junior 
year. He became a journalist, and afterwards removed 
to Washington, was stenographer in the Senate, 1883- 
85; secretary to Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island, 1884; 
official stenographer in the Courts of Colorado, 1886-88, 
and in the Senate of the United States, 1888-89. 

He married in Washington, D. C., June 28, 1886, 
Laura Walden of Louisville, Ky. Their children are 
George Lawrence, b. July 5, 1887. 
Eugene Walden, b. September 6, 1888. 

Roberts, George Wood Bissell, merchant, son of 
Thomas and Elizabeth Hill (Bissell) Roberts, was born 
in Philadelphia, March 2, 1859. He entered the De- 

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GEORGE W. B. ROBERTS. 




JOHN ROMMEL. 



partment of Arts in 1875 and was graduated A. B., 1879, 
and A. M., 1882. He is a member of the Zeta Psi fra- 
ternity. After graduation he engaged in the wholesale 
grocery business and is a member of the firm of Thomas 
Roberts & Co. He is a member of the Alumni Society 
and Athletic Association of the University, and of the 
University Club of Philadelphia. 

He married at Dedham, Mass., February 10, 1886, 
Mary Foster, daughter of Ephraim L. Frothingham. 
Their children are 

Mary Frothingham, b. June 13, 1887. 

Katherine Hubbard, b. April 14, 1891'; d. 
August 7, 1892. 

Elizabeth Bissell, b. December 16, 1892. 

Dorothy Margaret, b. December 16, 1892. 

Virginia, b. August 14, 1894. 
Address: 116 South Front Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Z 'f ; Philomathean Society; Athletic Associa- 
tion ; Cricket Club ; Chess Club. 

Sophomore : Treasurer and Second Censor Philo. 

Junior: Essay Prize; Second Declamation Prize; Class 
Treasurer ; Class Executive Committee ; Recorder Philo. ; Edi- 
tor University, Magazine. 

Senior: Joseph Warner Yardley prize; Moderator and 
Valedictorian Philo. ; Editor University Magazine ; Class Ex- 
ecutive Committee; Corresponding Secretary Athletic Associa- 
tion; Won Shooting Match, spring sports; Honors of third 
grade (Rank No. 14). 

Rommel, John, insurance, son of John (Medical 
Class of 1852) and Emma Christine (Audenried) Rom- 
mel, was born in Philadelphia, October 11, 1858. He 
entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and left at 
the close of freshman year. After leaving college he 
entered the machine shops of the Bridesburg Manufac- 

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turing Company, and was subsequently secretary and 
treasurer of the company. Afterwards he went into 
business as an optician becoming a member of the firm 
of Borsch & Rommel, and later into the insurance busi- 
ness, being now connected with the Mutual Life Insur- 
ance Company of New York. 1881-89 he was a mem- 
ber of the First Regiment National Guard of Pennsyl- 
vania. He is a member of the Skating Club and 
Humane Society and the Art Club of Philadelphia. 

He married in Atlanta, Ga., December 5, 1882, 
Carrie, daughter of Willis F. Westmoreland, M. D. 
Their children are 

John Willis, b. April 21, 1884. 

Warren Westmoreland, b. April 7, 1886. 

Carrie Westmoreland, b. January 6, 1889. 
Address: looi Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 

Savage, George Read, clergyman, son of George 
Read and Mary Anne (Stewart) Savage, was born in 
Philadelphia, December 20, 1858. He entered the De- 
partment of Arts in 1875 and in the fall of 1876 entered 
the Class of 1880, leaving college in 1879, at the close of 
junior year. 1880-84 he studied theology at the Divin- 
ity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Phila- 
delphia, and was ordered deacon 1884 and ordained 
priest, 1885. He was assistant at St. Anne's, Annap- 
olis, Md., 1884-88; St. Paul's, Troy, N. Y., 1888; Christ 
Church, Williamsport, Pa., 1888-89; rector. Church of 
the Beloved Disciple, Philadelphia, Pa., 1890 to date. 
He was Secretary and Treasurer Convocation of An- 
napolis 1885-88 and Chaplain Annapolis Lodge F. & 
A. M., 1887-88. He is a member of the General Alumni 
Society of the University and of the Severn Boat Club of 

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GEORGE R. SAVAGE. 




ROBERT A. SHILLINGFORD. 



Annapolis (and was its president, 1886-88) ; the Anne 
Arundel Historical Society of Maryland; and the Uni- 
versity Club of Philadelphia. 

He married in Annapolis, Md., January 15, 1896, 
Sophia, daughter of Abram Claude. Their children are 
George Claude, b. March 4, 1897. 
John William, b. July 6, 1898; d. November 
10, 1898. 
Address: 1632 Oxford Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : Philomathean Society ; Athletic Association ; 
Dramatic Club; Chess Club. 

Shillingford, Robert Adair, engineer, son of 
Henry H. and Martha Reed (Thompson) Shillingford, 
was born in Philadelphia, August 28, 1857. He entered 
the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and was graduated 
B. S. in 1879. After graduation he was, 1880-85, prin- 
cipal assistant to the general mining engineer of the 
Cambria Iron Company, Johnstown, Pennsylvania; 
1885-87, in business in Philadelphia; and subsequently, 
1887 to date, general superintendent Clearfield Bitumin- 
ous Coal Corporation. He is a member of the En- 
gineers' Club of Philadelphia. 

He married in Bethlehem, Penna., October 20, 
1887, Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of George Webb. 
Their children are 

George Webb, b. September 13, 1888. 
Martha Reed, b. May 2, 1890. 

Address: Peale, Clearfield County, Pa. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Franklin Scientific Society; Athletic Associa- 
tion; Cricket Club. 

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Sophomore : Recording Secretary Franklin Scientific So- 
ciety. 

Junior: Class Recording Secretary; Vice President 
Franklin Scientific Society. 

Senior: President Franklin Scientific Society. 

*Smith_, Charles Carroll, son of Oliver and Sarah J. 
(Carroll) Smith, was born in Philadelphia, October 6, 
1859, and died in Philadelphia, September 13, 1883. 
He entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and 
left during freshman year on account of ill-health. He 
entered the Class of 1880 in 1876 but was again com- 
pelled to leave college in 1877. He spent about one 
year v/ith Wm. Sellers & Co., after leaving college, but 
his health again gave out. 
He was unmarried. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Member: Athletic Association. 

Smith, James Hulme, engineer, son of George A. 
and Eliza (Hulme) Smith, was born in Philadelphia, 
June 30, 1858. He entered the Towne Scientific School 
m 1875 and was graduated B. S. in 1879. He is a mem- 
ber of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. To his son was 
awarded the Class Cup for the first son born to a grad- 
uate. Since graduation he has been engaged in mining, 
cattle raising and fruit culture, mainly in Mesa County, 
Colorado. In connection with his various interests he 
has done considerable engineering work in the matter 
of irrigation. 

He married in Denver, January 25, 1882, Mary, 

daughter of George Vaugh Fortune. Their children are 

George Albert, b. November 2, 1882. 

Alice Paxon, b. June 3, 1889. 

Roger Stewart, b. February 23, 1893. 

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CHARLES CARROLL SMITH. 






JAMES H. SMITH. 




HENRY F. STEWART. 



Address : Grand Junction, Colorado. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Member: ^K^; Athletic Association. 
Freshman : Class Base Ball Team. 
Sophomore : Class Base Ball and Foot Ball Teams. 
Junior: Class Base Ball Team. 
Senior : Class Base Ball and Foot Ball Teams. 



Speakman, Charles Henry Hartshorne, son of 
Franklin Baily and Anna Martha (Spangler) Speakman, 
was born in New Bloomfield, Perry County, Pennsyl- 
vania, May 24, 1859. He entered the Towne Scientific 
School in 1875 and left at the close of freshman year. 
1877-78 he was a student at Lafayette College. He 
was a railroad paymaster and civil engineer. During 
the railroad riots of 1877 he served as private of the 
Fourth Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania. 
He is now manager of the Speakman House, Coates- 
ville, Pennsylvania. 

He married Mary, daughter of John Albert Allen 
of Richmond, Virginia. 

Address: Coatesville, Pa. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Member: Athletic Association. 



Stewart,, Henry Foster, clerk, son of William 
Moore and Elizabeth Forrester (Clopper) Stewart, was 
born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1857. He 
entered the Department of Arts in 1875 ^^^ ^^^^ ^t the 
close of junior year. He is a member of the Phi Kappa 
Sigma fraternity. After leaving college he was for 
some years a bank clerk in Philadelphia; afterwards Sec- 
retary Greensburg and Hempfield Electric Street Rail- 

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way Company and subsequently in the employ of the 
Standard Telephone Company, Philadelphia. 

He is unmarried. 

Address: The Pascoe, 313 South Thirteenth 
Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : <& K 2 ; Athletic Association. 

Freshman: Class Base Ball Team and Cricket Eleven; 
University Base Ball Nine. 

Sophomore : Class Base Ball and Foot Ball teams and 
Cricket Eleven; University Base Ball and Foot Ball Teams. 

Junior: Class Cricket Eleven and Foot Ball Team; Uni- 
versity Foot Ball Team. 

Stewart, William Moore, lawyer, son of William 
Moore and Elizabeth Forrester (Clopper) Stewart, was 
born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, November 30, 1858. 
He entered the Department of Arts in 1875 and was 
graduated A. B., 1879, and A. M., 1882. He is a mem- 
ber of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. After gradua- 
tion from the college he entered the Law School, was 
graduated LL. B. in 1881, was president of the Law 
Class of 1 88 1, and in 1881-83 took the post-graduate 
law course in the Department of Philosophy. He was 
admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 188 1 and has since 
been in active practice, and has done some legal writing 
and a very large amount of law reporting for the State 
Reports, Central Reporter and Weekly Notes of Cases. 
He has been Librarian of the Lucas Hirst Free Law 
Library, 1889 to date. He is President of the Saltsburg 
Coal Company. He is a member of the Alumni Socie- 
ties of the University and of the Law School and of the 
Sharswood Law Club and Athletic Association, and 
Central Committee of the Alumni, 1888 to date (and 
Secretary of the same 1890 to date), of the University; 

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WILLIAM M. STEWART, JR. 




N. ALLEN STOCKTON. 



honorary member of the Law Academy of Philadelphia; 
member of the Law Association of Philadelphia and of 
the Philadelphia Cricket Club and Down Town Clubs of 
Philadelphia. 

He married in Philadelphia, November 23, 1892, 
Margarette Lyman, daughter of Frederic L. Ballard. 
Their children are 

Douglas Moore, b. September 12, 1893; d. 

October 24, 1896. 
Alice, b. February 9, 1897. 
Address: 400 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 
Undergraduate Record. 

Member : 4> K 2 ; Philomathean Society ; Athletic Associa- 
tion ; College Boat Club ; Cricket Club. 

Freshman: Honors of first grade; Class Cricket Eleven; 
University Foot Ball Team. 

Sophomore : Second Censor Philo. ; Class Crew, Base Ball 
and Foot Ball Teams ; University Foot Ball Team. 

Junior : Secretary and First Censor Philo. ; Class Vice 
President; Class Crew, Base Ball and Foot Ball Teams and 
Cricket Eleven ; University Foot Ball Team ; Second Prize Long 
Jump, Second Prize Quarter Mile Run. 

Senior : Recorder Philo. ; President University Athletic 
Association ; Class Base Ball and Foot Ball Teams ; University 
Crew and Foot Ball Team; Honors of third grade (Rank No. 
12). 

Stockton, Newberry Allen, engineer, son of Ed- 
ward Canty and Emma Wayne (Smith) Stockton, was 
born in Philadelphia, October 22, 1859. He entered 
the Towne Scientific School in 1876 in sophomore year, 
and was graduated B. S. in 1879. He is a member of 
the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. After graduation he was 
engaged on the Second Geological Survey of Pennsyl- 
vania, 1879-80, chemist of Central Virginia Iron Com- 
pany, 1881; in the music publishing business, 1884-87; 
and mining engineer of the George's Creek Coal and 
Iron Company, 1890 to date. He has also, incidentally, 

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been engaged in farming at Bethayres, Pennsylvania, 
since graduation. He is a member of the Athletic Asso- 
ciation and Houston Club of the University and of the 
Huntingdon Valley Country Club. 

He married at Philadelphia, June i, 1887, Christine 
S., daughter of Charles Willing Hare. Their children 
are 

Mary Hare, b. September 3, 1888. 
Newberry Allen, b. December 31, 1890. 
Christine Hare, b. June 3, 1897. 
Address: 724-5 Stephen Girard Building, Phila- 
delphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : <J> K -^ ; Franklin Scientific Society ; Athletic As- 
sociation ; Cricket Club ; Glee Club ; Dramatic Club. 

Sophomore : Class Cricket Eleven and Foot Ball Team. 

Junior : Class Base Ball Team and Glee Club ; Recording 
Secretary Franklin Scientific Society. 

Senior: Class Foot Ball Team; Vice President Franklin 
Scientific Society. 

Stovell,, John William Davis, broker, son of John 
Stovell, was born January 24, 1858. He entered the 
Towne Scientific School in 1875 and left during sopho- 
more year. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma 
fraternity. After leaving college he went to Colorado 
Springs and engaged in the real estate business, served 
as clerk of the District Court for six years and has since 
been engaged in mining and mining stock brokerage 
business. 

He married in Denver, August 9, 1886, Jennie W. 
Moore. Their children are 

John, b. May 31, 1887. 

James M., b. November 12, 1888. 

WilHam, b. May 12, 1891. 




CLIFFORD S. THOMAS. 



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STEVENSON H. WALSH. 



Address: Rooms 21-22 P. O. Block, Colorado 

Springs, Col. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : * K 2 ; Athletic Association. 

Freshman: Class Base Ball Team and Cricket Eleven; 
University Base Ball Team ; second in Long Jump. 

Thomas, Clifford Smith, engineer, son of Jacob 
Valentine and Loetitia Poultney (Smith) Thomas, was 
born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, August 23, 1859. He 
entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and was 
graduated B. S. in 1879. After graduation he was, 
1879-84, apprentice in locomotive shops, Altoona, 
Pennsylvania; Assistant Road Foreman of Engines, 
New York Division, 1884-89, and Philadelphia Division, 
1889-92; Master Mechanic, Lewistown Division, 1892 
to date; all in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 
He is a member of the Alumni Society of the University 
and of the Nittany Rod and Gun Club, Lewistown Rod 
and Gun Club and Don Pedro Club of Lewistown. 

He married in Brooklyn, New York, June 3, 1885, 
Margarette Diehl, daughter of George Henderson. 
Their children are 

George Henderson, b. February 8, 1888. 
Richard Valentine, b. June 6, 1890. 
William Ashbridge, b. January 11, 1892. 

Address : Penna. R. R., Lewistown, Pennsylvania. 

Undergraduate Record. 
Member: Franklin Scientific Society; Cricket Club. 

Walsh, Stevenson Hockley, insurance, son of 
George Herbert and Harriet (Hockley) Walsh, was 
born in Rhinebeck, Duchess County, New York, June 
23, 1856. He entered the Department of Arts in 1875 

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and left at the close of freshman year. He is a member 
of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. Since leaving col- 
lege he has been engaged in the fire insurance business. 
He is a member of the General Alumni Society of the 
University, and of the Historical Society of Pennsyl- 
vania, Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, 
Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Genealogical Society 
of Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Newburgh Bay 
and the Highlands, and of the Rittenhouse Club of 
Philadelphia. 

He married in Bergen Point, New Jersey, January 
17, 1883, Roberta Lee, daughter of William Franklin 
Owens. Their children are 

George Herbert, b. December 11, 1883. 

Katharine Hockley, b. October 16, 1887. 

Stevenson Hockley, b. January 29, 189 1. 

Mary Norvell, b. November 12, 1895; d. Feb- 
ruary 13, 1899. 
Address: 411 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : 4> K 2 ; Athletic Association. 
Freshman: Class President; Class Glee Club. 

Walton, Charles Lukens, hotel business, son of 
Francis Theodore and Emma Lavinia (Stackhouse) 
Walton, was born in Philadelphia, January 31, 1859. 
He entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and left 
during sophomore year. He is a member of the Sigma 
Chi fraternity. Since graduation he has spent most of 
his time in the hotel business, principally in New York 
and Philadelphia, and is now cashier of the Continental 
Hotel, Philadelphia. 

He married (i) in Philadelphia, December 21, 1882, 

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CHARLES L. WALTON. 




FRANCIS LINCOLN WAYLAND. 



Caroline Elliott Reed, and (2) in Philadelphia, June 19, 
1890, Emma Rosenberger. His children are 

Emily Jewell, b. August 25, 1884. 

Emil Berry, b. January 31, 1892. 
Address: Continental Hotel, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : 2 X ; Athletic Association. 

Freshman : Class Cricket Eleven and Glee Club. 

Sophomore: Class Base Ball Team. 

Wayland, Francis Lincoln, lawyer, son of Heman 
Lincoln and Elizabeth G. (Arms) Wayland, was born in 
Worcester, Massachusetts, September i, 1858. He en- 
tered the Towne Scientific School in 1875, left during 
freshman year, re-entered in 1877 in the Class of 1880 
as a partial student, left at the beginning of senior year 
to enter the Law School and was graduated LL. B. in 
1881, delivering the Law Oration. He is a member of 
the Zeta Psi fraternity. He was admitted to the Phila- 
delphia Bar in 1881 and has since been in practice in 
Philadelphia, and since 1887 has been Assistant City 
Solicitor of Philadelphia. He annotated the eighth 
(American) edition of Roscoe's Criminal Evidence. He 
is a member of the Law Association and of the Uni- 
versity Club of Philadelphia. 

He married in Philadelphia, December 2, 1885, 
Lillian Heberton, daughter of Lindsay Craige. They 
have one daughter. 

Cicely, b. December 2^, 1888. 

Address: Franklin Building, Philadelphia. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Z 'f ; Franklin Scientific Society; Athletic As- 
sociation ; University Literary Association. 
Freshman : Class President. 

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Webb, William Walter, clergyman, son of William 
Hewitt and Esther Odin (Dorr) Webb, was born in 
Germantown, Philadelphia, November, 20, 1858. He 
entered the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and left at 
the close of sophomore year. Subsequently he entered 
Trinity College, Hartford, and was graduated A. B. and 
B. S. 1882 and A. M. 1885. In 1898 he received the 
degree of D. D. from Nashotah. At Trinity he joined 
the I. K. A. fraternity. Subsequently he studied the- 
ology at Berkeley Divinity School and was ordained 
priest in the Episcopal Church ; 1885-86, he was assistant 
at Trinity Church, Middletown, Conn.; 1886-89, ^.s- 
sistant at Church of the Evangelists, Philadelphia; 
1889-93, rector of St. Elisabeth's, Philadelphia, 1893 to 
date professor of Dogmatic Theology at, and 1898 to 
date. President of, Nashotah House, Nashotah, Wiscon- 
sin. He is president of the Standing Committee of the 
Diocese, and Honorary Canon of the Cathedral, Mil- 
waukee, and delegate to the General Convention. He 
has published: Index to Literature of Electrolysis; 
Guide for Seminarians; Cure of Souls; and numerous 
magazine articles. 

He is unmarried. 

Address : Nashotah, Wisconsin. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member: Franklin Scientific Society; Athletic Associa- 
tion; College Boat Club. 

Freshman : Class Executive Committee and Glee Club. 
Sophomore: Class Executive Committee. 

* Wharton, Thomas, author, son of Henry (Class 
of 1846) and Katherine Johnstone (Brinley) Wharton, 
was born in Philadelphia, August i, 1859, died in Phila- 
delphia, April 3, 1896. He entered the Department of 

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WILLIAM WALTER WEBB. 




THOMAS WHARTON, 



*Arts in 1876 in sophomore year and was graduated 
A. B., 1879, ^^^ A- M., 1882. After graduation he 
studied law, was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 
188 1 and after practicing for a short time and being 
connected with the legal department of the Land Title 
and Trust Company, 1885-88, gave himself entirely to 
literary work. He became connected with the Phila- 
delphia Times in 1888, and at the time of his death was 
editor of its Sunday edition. He published : A Latter 
Day Saint; Hannibal of New York; Bobbo, and Other 
Fancies; and numerous poems and sketches. He is 
represented in the "Library of the World's Best Litera- 
ture," where an extract from ''Bobbo" is introduced by 
a sketch of Wharton by Owen Wister which is repro- 
duced by permission of author and publisher: 

"As one looks back upon the life of Thomas 
Wharton, the good name of those from whom he 
sprung, the distinction which after many years of 
promise he had begun to win for himself, it grows 
clearer than ever that a talent of a rare kind, with rare 
advantages of inheritance, is lost to American letters; a 
talent of charm, of grace, of winning fancy, that in 
these literal, half-ugly days can ill be spared. With 
many honorable generations in his blood, Thomas 
Wharton came by right to pluck, subtlety, humor, and 
brilliant powers of acquisition. Among Philadelphia 
lawyers, the names of both his father and grandfather 
remain traditional for scholarship. One other birth- 
right — namely, length of days — might have been his; 
and persuaded that it was to be, he labored steadily, 
cheerfully, and in no haste; believing that success would 
come to him all the more ripe and sure for his patience. 
But even middle age was denied him. Born August 

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1st, 1859, he died April 3rd, 1896, full of plans and work, 
letters from theatre managers and composers in his 
desk, books and plays in his mind beyond what was 
signed for by actual contract at the moment; a man of 
thirty-seven but at heart forever a boy, with his eyes 
beholding the first visions of worldly reward. 

''Three periods he knew: a beginning full of hope, 
a middle full of struggle undaunted and courageous dis- 
appointment, and a brief end when the rays of true 
recognition began to shine upon him. 

"Before he was fifteen, he brought home from his 
fi-rst year at Hellmuth College, near London, Ont., five 
prizes; and to crown these, the medal given that year 
by the Governor-General for the highest average marks. 
In those days he also scribbled copiously, verse and 
prose, but verse the more; and his art with words was 
already light and happy far beyond the common. He 
first appeared in print then, with an ode of Horace put 
into English verse; and at twenty-one he was in the 
Atlantic Monthly with more verses, entitled 'Archse- 
ology,' By inheritance a scholar, but himself robust in 
fibre, fond of swimming, and of cricket, and of life, he 
did not sustain his prize-winning eminence at the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania. There he was graduated in 
1879; with no array of honors, but like his father, know- 
ing and loving well the things that he knew. From all 
the shelves — Attic, Augustan, Romance, Renaissance, 
through Shakespeare, Moliere, and Heine, to Mark 
Twain — he pulled the books down and rejoiced in them. 
His knowledge of what man has written mellowed his 
judgment, seasoned his imagination, and preserved him 
from those errors of taste and theory that waylay so 
many genuine but half-educated talents in our country. 

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"The law was Thomas Wharton's hereditary, logi- 
cal, but inappropriate choice of career. After a few 
years his talent revolted, the inevitable crushed the con- 
ventional, and he became out-and-out writer. In 1888 
he went upon the editorial staff of the Philadelphia 
Times, and was Sunday editor when he died. Danger- 
ous for the clever ignorant, it was beneficent for him, 
this swift journalism, — compelling the scholar to be 
himself, to take up his scholarship and walk. Until 
now, neither his matter nor his manner had been quite 
his own. To look at his articles and stories in Lippin- 
cott's Magazine and in Puck, and especially his clever 
novels, 'A Latter-Day Saint' and 'Hannibal of New 
York,' is to see a genuine gift often misdirected. From 
the novels turn to 'Bobbo,' and in a flash the true final 
Wharton stands revealed. This is what the gods made 
him for: weaver of fancies, rainbow-colored whims, 
dreams away from the jangle of life, through which 
life's pathos and humor and tenderness should delicately 
play. Had the word gem with us Americans not been 
thumbed out of all critical meaning, 'Bobbo' should be 
called a gem. Its light completely radiates from a form 
complete. 

'Wharton attained this through his newspaper 
work, and side work of verses and fantastic texts for 
operas. The newspaper made him master of his 
scholarship instead of being mastered by it, and set free 
his fancy. From Charlemagne's paladins, from the 
teocalli of Montezuma, from Paris Streets as Villon 
knew them, he brought fancies, and more fancies, verse 
and prose ever finer tempered, — the spontaneity shining 
even brighter through the chiseled language. It is 
wholesome knowledge that he was a civilized college- 

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bred American, dwelling quite at home; that cultivation 
made valuable his gift; that he did not believe rawness 
to be symptom of originality. Certainly, for our pleas- 
ure and his rare example, we can ill spare him. So 
many of us seem born mere observers, with all the note- 
making apparatus — ^but no wings!" 
He was unmarried. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member : Athletic Association ; Cricket Club. 
Sophomore : Class Base Ball Team. 

Senior: Class Base Ball Team; Honors of third grade 
(Rank No. 9). 

Whitaker, Lemuel, teacher, son of Franklin and 
Lydia L. (Ross) Whitaker, was born in Green Creek, 
New Jersey, November 22, 1857. He entered the De- 
partment of Arts in 1875 and left at the close of the 
second term freshman year. He subsequently entered 
Columbia College, New York, and was graduated A. B., 
1881, and A. M., 1894. He was five years a student in 
the Department of Philosophy of the University. He 
has been engaged in teaching and is in charge of the 
department of English Language and Literature of the 
Northeast Manual Training School, Philadelphia. 

He married in Greenport, Suffolk County, New 
York, January 13, 1885, Clara P., daughter of William 
J. Wheeler. 

Address: Northeast Manual Training School, 
Howard Street below Girard Avenue, Philadelphia. 

WiGTON, Charles Benson, son of Richard B. and 
Eleanor (Hammill) Wigton, was born in Philadelphia, 
July 12, 1859. He entered the Department of Arts in 
1875 and left during freshman year. He subsequently 

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THOMAS C. WILEY. 



went to Princeton where he was graduated A. B. in 
1879. After graduation from Princeton he went into 
the coal and iron business, and was secretary and treas- 
urer of the Glamorgan Iron Company. 

He married Joanna, daughter of Alexander R. Mc- 
Cown. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Freshman: Class Recording Secretary; Class Base Ball 
Team ; University Base Ball Team. 

Wiley, Thomas Collins, railroad contractor, son 
of William Martin and Hannah (Dull) Wiley, was born 
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1858. He entered 
the Towne Scientific School in 1875 and left during 
freshman year. He is a member of the fraternity of 
Delta Psi. After leaving college he engaged in busi- 
ness as a railroad contractor, and at present is Highway 
Commissioner of the City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 
He is a member of the Hamilton Club of Lancaster. 

He married in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, June 26, 
I 1879, Ella Sprecher. Their children are 

Helen Sprecher, b. August 9, 1880. 
Hannah Dull, b. May 21, 1883. 
Address: Highway Department, City Hall, Lan- 
caster, Penna. 

Undergraduate Record. 

Member ; A i' ; Athletic Association. 
Freshman: Class Treasurer; Class Glee Club. 



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The Faculty 

1875-79 

PROFESSORS 

Charles J. Stille resigned as Provost and Pro- 
fessor of History and English Literature in 1880, having 
served as Provost since 1868. He resides in Philadel- 
phia. 

Charles P. Krauth died, while Vice Provost and 
Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, in 1883. 

George Allen died while Professor of the Greek 
Language and Literature in 1876. 

Francis A. Jackson remains in the Chair of Latin. 

E. Otis Kendall succeeded Dr. Krauth as Vice 
Provost in 1883, resigned as Vice Provost in 1894 and 
retired from active duties as Professor of Mathematics 
in the same year. He died January 5, 1899. 

Oswald Seidensticker, while Professor of the 
German Language and Literature, died in 1894. 

John G. R. McElroy, while Professor of Rhetoric 
and the English Language, died in 1890. 

Robert E. Thompson retired from the Chairs of 
Social Science and the John Welsh Centennial Profes- 
sorship of History and English Literature in 1892, and 
became President of the Boys' Central High School in 
Philadelphia. 

F. Ame'dee Bregy, while Professor of the French 
Language and Literature, died in 1877. 

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J. Peter Lesley resigned as Professor of Geology 
and Mining in 1890, becoming Emeritus Professor, and 
resides at Milton, Massachusetts. 

Frederick A. Genth retired from the professor- 
ship of Chemistry and Mineralogy in 1888, and died in 
1893. 

George F. Barker remains in the chair of Physics. 

Lewis M. Haupt resigned as Professor of Civil 
Engineering in 1892. He has recently been a member 
of the Board to examine the route of the Nicaragua 
Canal, appointed by the President. 

Thomas W. Richards resigned as Professor of 
Drawing and Architecture in 1891. He is now residing 
in Philadelphia. 

George A. Koenig ceased tO' be Assistant Pro- 
fessor of Chemistry in 1886, to become Professor of 
Mineralogy and Metallurgy and resigned in 1892. He 
is now Professor of Chemistry in the Michigan College 
of Mines, Houghton, Michigan. 

Samuel P. Sadtler ceased to be Assistant Pro- 
fessor of Chemistry in 1887, to become Professor of 
Organic and Industrial Chemistry, and resigned in 1892. 
He is now a consulting chemist, and he is Professor of 
Chemistry in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and 
in the Franklin Institute. 

Frederick A. Muhlenberg resigned as Professor 
of the Greek Language and Literature in 1888. He is 
now residing in Reading, Pennsylvania. 

William D. Marks resigned as Whitney Pro- 
fessor of Dynamical Engineering in 1889, and has since 
been engaged in electrical work in Philadelphia. 

Otis H. Kendall resigned as Assistant Professor 
of Mathematics in 1889, and died in 1897. 

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INSTRUCTORS 

Charles F. B. Miel, Instructor in French from 
1878 to 1880, is residing in Wayne, Delaware County, 
Pennsylvania. 

Arthur F. Taylor, Instructor in Physics from 
1878 to 1881, died in 1883, being then Professor of 
Chemistry in the Case School of Applied Science, Cleve- 
land, Ohio. 

PROFESSORS' ASSISTANTS 

John Henry Harden, Assistant in Geology and 
Mining Engineering from 1874 to 1879, resides in 
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. 

Edgar F. Smith, Assistant in Analytical Chemis- 
try from 1876 to 188 1, has been Professor of Chemistry 
since 1888 and was appointed Vice Provost, 1899. 

Thomas French, Assistant in Physics from 1876 
to 1878, is now Professor of Physics in the University of 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 



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Vigintennial Dinner 

On May i6th, 1879, public announcement was made 
on Class Day that the twentieth annual re-union of the 
Class of 1879 would be held in the United Universities 
Club. When the Club came to be established some years 
later the name was shortened, but the re-union was held 
as announced on May i8th, 1899, at the University Club 
of Philadelphia. 

There were present Boulton, J. D. Brown, Claxton, 
Day, Dechert, Dick, Gest, Graham, Hance, Hart, Ken- 
nedy, Leaming, McCall, Montgomery, C. W. Nevin, 
W. L. Nevin, Nichols, Read, Reath, Roberts, Rommel, 
W. M. Stewart, Walton and Wayland. H. L. Jayne, 
Kinley and Newbold had accepted but were unable to 
attend. 

Dr. Stille, Professor Jackson, Dr. Barker and Dr. 
Smith (those of the present Faculty who were of the 
Faculty in our undergraduate days) having been in- 
vited to be present. Dr. Stille declined. Dr. Smith ac- 
cepted but was too modest to appear in his new dignity 
as Vice Provost before a Class which welcomed him as 
an Assistant in 1876, Professor Jackson and Professor 
Barker were present and both expressed pleasure in 
again meeting, collectively, the members of Seventy- 
nine. Their presence added very much to the pleasure 
of the members, and Dr. Barker's graceful words of 
good feeling broadened through a comparison of condi- 
tions "then and now" into an eloquent account of the 
recent victories of Science and a prophecy of her com- 
ing triumphs, which was highly appreciated. 

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The Chairman of the Committee read the following 

letter: "2201 St. James' Place, 

May 9, 1899. 

Dear Mr. Gest, — There are many reasons why I should ac- 
cept the kind and gratifying invitation of the Class of '79 to 
dine with them on the twentieth anniversary of their completing 
their college work. But my health has suffered a great deal of 
late, and this should sufficiently excuse my absence. 

I recall well the year 1879 and my connexion at that time 
with the University. It was the first year when I looked for- 
ward to gathering some of the fruits of a somewhat new system 
of instruction which I had adopted, and I felt that the young 
men of that class were preparing for a new, and as I fondly 
hoped, a better training than had before prevailed, but circum- 
stances changed the condition of affairs, and so far as college 
was concerned, I was unable to prove my theory to my satisfac- 
tion. But as to the work these young men have done in the 
world, of the credit they have done their Alma Mater by that 
work, I have no reason to be disappointed. I send to all of 
you my kindest and sincerest good wishes, and my earnest hope 
that your future may be as the past has been, a credit to the 
University, as well as a source of pride to those who have shared 
in your instruction. 

With regards, Very sincerely yours, 

C. J. Stille. 
John M. Gest, Esq.-" 

The Chairman was requested to convey to Dr. Stille 
on behalf of the Class acknowledgments and good 
wishes. 

During the evening announcement was made of the 
endowment by Evans R. Dick of a Scholarship in the 
University in memory of Vice Provost Ezra Otis Ken- 
dall, in the name of the Class of 1879. 

President Nichols referred briefly to the varied 
careers of our representatives in poetry, fiction, theology, 
education, science, law, medicine, finance, commerce and 
the drama. There were many informal speeches, and Dr. 
Barker's suggestion that the end of the next twenty 
years be celebrated by a similar re-union was unani- 
mously adopted, upon his promising to attend. 

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class Statistics 



Living. Dead. 

Married 65 6 

Not Married 16 8 

Not Known 7 i 

88 IS 

Children reported: Living, 128; Dead, 13. 

Occupations 

Living. Dead. 

Actor I 

Architects 2 

Author I 

Bankers and Brokers 6 2 

Business 9 i 

Chemist I 

Civil Service (Japan) i 

Clergymen 7 

Clerk U. S. Court i 

Engineers 11 2 

Farmers 2 

Insurance 3 

Journalists 2 

Lawyers 17 i 

Manufacturers 3 

Merchants 3 

Physicians 4 i 

Poet I 

Professors and Teachers 4 

Real Estate 2 

Stenographer i 

U. S. Navy 2 

No Occupation 3 4 

Not Known 5 

88 15 

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Addresses 



Dr. Edward W. Allison, 202 W. 79th Street, New York. 

Dr. William E. Ashton, 201 1 Walnut Street, Phila. 

Zebulon Benton. 

Edward P. Borden, 1644 21st St., N. W., Washin;^ton, D. C. 

William B. Boulton, 13 East 34th Street, New York. 

William W. Britton. 

Edward Hurst Brown, 523 Monroe Ave., Elizabeth, N. J. 

John Douglass Brown, Jr., 519 Drexel Building, Phila. 

Thomas J. Brown, Mount Joy, Lancaster Co., Pa. 

Abraham Bruner. 

Dr. James S. Carpenter, Pottsville, Pa. 

Prof. O. C. S. Carter, 1930 Chestnut St., Phila. 

Isaac S. Cassin, Jr., 2906 Girard Ave., Phila. 

Benjamin F. Chatham, 4816 Beaumont Ave., Phila. 

Dr. Charles Claxton, 5130 Wayne Ave., Germantown, Phila. 

C. Howard Colket, 519 Drexel Building, Phila. 

James W. Dale, Media, Pa. 

Samuel H. Day, Saint David's, Pa. 

Henry T. Dechert, 605 Real Estate Trust Building, Phila. 

Jose Eloy Deza, Pacasmayo, Peru (?) 

Evans R. Dick, 435 Chestnut Street, Phila. 

John Dorrance, Keytesville P. O,, Chariton Co., Mo. 

John S. Elliott, Care Douglas Robinson & Co., 55 Liberty 

Street, New York. 
Albert H. Franciscus, care Chicago Chronicle, Chicago, IlL 
Francis T. Freeland, P. O. Box 1016, Aspen, Col. 
Prof. George S. Fullerton, University of Penna., Phila. 
Humboldt Garber, P. O. Box 28, Lansdowne, Delaware 

Co., Pa. 
John Marshall Gest, 400 Chestnut Street, Phila. 
John A. Giltinan, care Central Minnesota Land Co., Morris, 

Minn. 
Rev. John Graham, 3227 Montgomery Ave., Phila. 

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George A. Haines. 

Anthony M. Hance, 2024 DeLancey Place, Phila. 

Reginald L. Hart, Wayne, Delaware Co., Pa. 
Austin S. Heckscher, Manhattan Building, Phila. 

Edgar C. Howell, 1221 Arch Street, Phila. 

Lieutenant Walter O. Hulme, Navy Department, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

George W. Hunt, 130O' Spruce Street, Phila. 

Charles B. Hurley, Tacoma, Wash. 

Tosui Imadate, Aomonocho, Nihonbashiku, Tokio, Japan. 

Arthur G. Jack, 511 So. Orange St., Media, Pa. 

Frederick V. Jarden, 1406 No. 13th Street, Phila. 

Walter H. Jarden, 1828 Green St., Phila. 

Henry La Barre Jayne, 505 Chestnut St., Phila. 

Dr. Horace Jayne, Wistar Institute, Phila. 

Rev. Henry S. Jefferys, No. 6, Kata Hira Cho, Sendai, Japan. 

Davidson Kennedy, 308 Walnut St., Phila. 

James B. Kinley, 411 Real Estate Trust Building, Phila. 

Chief Engineer James P. S. Lawrance, Navy Department, 
Washington, D. C. 

Thomas Leaming, 1004 Land Title Building, Phila. 

Horace H. Lee, 420 Sansom Street, Phila. 

Saunders Lewis, Room 21, P. O. Building, Phila. 

George McCall, 435 Chestnut St., Phila. 

William McElroy, Los Angeles, Cal. 

Hon. James W. McKinley, 308 Bullard Building, Los Angeles, 
Cal. 

William W. Michener, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. 

Emlen Hare Miller, Salem, Va. 

W. Egbert Mitchell, Los Angeles, Cal. 

Benjamin Monteith, 1414 Lombard St., Phila. 

Rev. Richard Montgomery, Ashbourne, Pa. 

Harry Taws Moore, 1214 Walnut St., Phila. 

J. Cheston Morris, Jr., Penllyn, Montgomery Co., Pa. 

Rev. Charles W. Nevin, 2322 So. Broad St., Phila. 

William L. Nevin, S. W. Cor. 13th and Market Sts., Phila. 

Arthur E. Newbold, 113 So. Fifth St., Phila. 

H. S. Prentiss Nichols, 411 Real Estate Trust Building, Phila. 

James C. Pascal, 925 Chestnut St., Phila. 

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Rev. Granville R. Pike, 1090 Lawndale Ave., Chicago, 111. 

A. Aden Powell, Gloucester City, N. J. 

Edmund E. Read, 227 Federal St., Camden, N. J. 

Thomas Reath, 700 Girard Building, Phila. 

George W. B. Roberts, 116 So. Front St., Phila. 

John Rommel, looi Chestnut St., Phila. 

Rev. George R. Savage, 1632 Oxford St., Phila. 

Robert A. Shillingford, Peale, Clearfield Co., Pa. 

James H. Smith, Grand Junction, Col. 

Charles H. H. Speakman, Coatesville, Pa. 

Henry F. Stewart, The Pascoe, 313 So. 13th St., Phila. 

William M. Stewart, Jr., 400 Chestnut St., Phila. 

N. Allen Stockton, 724 Stephen Girard Building, Phila. 

John W. D. Stovell, Room 21 P. O. Block, Colorado Springs, 

Col. 
Clififord S. Thomas, care Penna. R. R., Lewistown, Pa. 
Stevenson H. Walsh, 411 Walnut St., Phila. 
Charles L. Walton, Continental Hotel, Phila. 
F. Lincoln Wayland, Franklin Building, Phila. 
Rev. W. Walter Webb, Nashotah, Wis. 
Lemuel Whitaker, N. E. Manual Training School, Phila. 
Charles B. Wigton. 
Thomas C. Wiley, City Hall, Lancaster, Pa. 



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